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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not to rain on everyone’s parade here, but some other pretty reputable scientists have torn apart this #urgencyofnormal toolkit, even pointing out what seem like either purposeful or negligent misstatements of studies/facts.

https://mobile.twitter.com/tylerblack32/status/1486111652076527623

For a compilation of the issues:

https://mobile.twitter.com/RMCarpiano/status/1486307145112961026

Re equity:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Lakshmi_RKG/status/1486195421156368388

One more from someone who hasn’t really been of them doom and gloom side:

https://mobile.twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1486319939837259778?cxt=HHwWhMCjyYiHvKApAAAA

She suggests this toolkit should be ignored.

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Tyler Black is also an attention-seeking, hyperbolic twitter persona with some sort of agenda (I don't know what, but he seems to need to put things like "hospital associations" in scare quotes), so probably shouldn't be casting around aspersions of attention-seeking.
And let's look at the critique that he is blasting as an "outright lie."  The UoN slide said 2400 suicides, and was corrected to 2200 suicides.  Obviously, a sign of a conspiracy and not a typo (which, notably was corrected).

Also he wants to review slides on twitter -- dude just WRITE IN A PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL.  He does all of this, instead, on twitter, so it just seems like he's not serious.

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Yes to say a lack of increase in suicides in Canada debunks mental health concerns from the pandemic is not very honest to say the least.[/quote]

DP, but he recently published an article using hospital visits as a proxy for mental health concerns, so it's hard to take him seriously.  That's like saying incidence of breast cancer declined and using number of concerning mammogram findings as your sole outcome measure.   We KNOW that people reduced healthcare visits for all kinds of things, regardless of their actual health.

The second person (Carpiano) also uses oddly hyperbolic and unprofessional language.  Bizarre, for a tenured professor.  The equity-related post isn't wrong, but the problem is that there are also health disparities in the negative consequences of no school.  The fourth person (Rasmussen) also resorts to ad hominem attacks.

These twitter links mostly can be summed up as "when insecure academics attack," which is not uncommon, if embarrassing.  [/quote]

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