Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine at Harvard University, Dr. The number of signatures the declaration has received is an increase from October 7, when it had signatures from at least 2,826 medical and public health scientists, 3,794 medical practitioners and more than 60,000 members of the general public. The Great Barrington Declaration, which is named after the town in Massachusetts that it was signed in, currently has signatures from 10,233 medical and public health scientists, 27,860 medical practitioners and 504,875 concerned citizens.

That’s something I’d like to see Tyler be right about.Over 10,000 scientists have signed the Great Barrington Declaration, a petition that suggests that COVID-19 lockdowns are 'producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.' Ironically, if policy makers heed the advice in the Great Barrington Declaration, which Tyler disagrees with, then the lockdowns would be behind us. Lockdowns are being re-imposed across Europe, and we’re in increasing danger of seeing them re-imposed in parts of the United States. He later continued, “the critics who emphasize lockdowns are setting up a straw man.”

Whatever you think of the stricter policies of last spring, they are now behind us, and the emphasis on ‘lockdowns’ is not helpful. In his October 15 th Bloomberg column attacking the Great Barrington Declaration Tyler wrote, There is one person who, unfortunately, was clearly wrong more recently. Yet Tyler declares “Come on people, you were wrong,” as if this somehow discredits the advice given in the Great Barrington Declaration.ĭoes Tyler believe that anyone making incorrect predictions last spring lacks credibility to give advice today? Would he apply that standard to all the lockdown advocates that used the sensational overestimated death tolls of the Imperial College London model to justify their favored policies? The incorrectness of the May predictions was already obvious by October, and there is no reason to believe that those particular predictions played any role in the signing of the declaration or the policy advice it offers. The Declaration was signed on October 4 th. The predictions were made back in May, a fact that Tyler notes in passing but seems to miss the significance of. He then links to an article quoting incorrect predictions made by Sunetra Gupta, a professor of theoretical epidemiology at Oxford University, who was one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration. If you are still pondering the Great Barrington Declaration and related matters, let us try a simple empirical test about predictions.

George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen is attacking the Great Barrington Declaration again today on Marginal Revolution.

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