Quackers

The 14 year heroin addict whose brain can’t even keep a worm alive; the man who saws off the heads of whales, dumps dead bear cubs in Central Park, sexually assaults babysitters, takes saunas with skeevy, clapped out, panty-sniffing, has been white rappers while wearing jeans; the freak with absolutely NO medical education or experience who claims vaccines cause autism, anti-depressants are responsible for school shootings, and Wi-Fi causes "leaky brains” – is up to his usual science denying tricks.

He’s appointed vaccine skeptic, Retsef Levi to the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. There he'll “review the safety of Covid-19 vaccines.” Levi’s already decided though – there’s not going to be any review. Like Bobby Brainworm, he’s not a supporter of vaccines, no matter what the actual facts say.

Dude claims that “Covid-19 vaccines are the “most failing medical product" in the history of medical products” despite all formal, conclusive research stating the exact opposite.

Levi is a professor at MIT where he teaches Operations Management at the Sloan School of Management. He also does something with Food Chain Supply Analytics. Nothing to do with medicine.

Dr Sharon Alroy-Preis, who served as head of Israel’s public health services during the pandemic, and stepped down from that role earlier this year, told the Guardian she could recall reading a draft of a paper Levi wrote in 2021, which suggested a correlation between Israel’s vaccination rate and emergency calls received by first responders in Israel that involved cardiac arrest.

“We took it very seriously at the ministry of health. We invited him to a meeting to thoroughly look at the research,” she said. “At the meeting it was clear that he was not familiar with the way the data is collected and potential wrong interpretations. What was more troubling: he didn’t seem to care.”

She added: “Having no answers to our professional questions he continued to insist he was right and ‘on to something’. It was clear he came with an agenda.”

Levi did not comment on this specific criticism. (source) 

How’d an anti-science quack get to be a big time tenured professor at MIT in the first place? Seriously.

Naturally, Levi objects and denies that he doesn’t have specific pertinent knowledge and real applicable experience to weigh in on this. Of course he does. He’s a big important guy in a big important job where he’s paid big important money and respected by loads of other big important men. That means he's an expert on everything he imagines. Just like Junior. Right?!

The Guardian asked Levi to address all of these critiques of his work. In response, Levi said in a statement: “The mentioned criticism on my research has been addressed through formal peer-review processes, with all retraction requests, including the one by the Israeli Ministry of Health, denied by Scientific Reports.”

Sure pal.

A spokesperson for HHS said “attacks” on Levi were “clearly politically motivated and ignore his substantial credentials”.

Of course. It’s the fall back position for all substance and fact-free bullies everywhere and that’s what the Republican Party is – a bunch of whiny-ass toddlers who love nothing more than to cry victim the minute anyone calls them out on their weaselly bullshit. 

Levi may have substantial deserved cred within the field of operations management – if so, he should stick to that.