Daniel Wilson, PhD: A master of misdirection
Daniel Wilson, PhD: A master of misdirection
Daniel Wilson aka "Debunk the Funk" claims to be a scientific truth-teller. In my opinion, he's a master of misdirection. I'm going to show you why I think that including a video.
Executive summary
I asked Dan Wilson aka “Debunk the Funk” to explain the Ontario data showing a 39% increase in deaths from COVID in the year after the vaccines rolled out.
He wrote back essentially that it is because lockdowns lowered deaths in 2021, it’s no surprise that the COVID deaths increased in 2022.
I immediately saw the flaw in this argument because I had read a certain paper (more on that later).
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When I asked him for the underlying data (since he didn’t cite his source), he deliberately misdirected me to a page which had no data at all, then he mocked me for being incapable of finding the data.
He finally sent me to the page with the charts he used, but I wanted the source data.
He did not give me the death data source data, and instead did a screenshot of the hospitalization page. So I found it on my own and it has data only up to mid-2022.
He basically wasted my time on a wild goose chase before finally giving me this link of the death data for vaxxed vs. unvaxxed in Ontario.
I plotted the unvaxxed rates and the vaxxed rates below for the 60+ age group from the data he sent me. Look what I found… it tracks, diverges, and tracks again in just a few days later. Sorry, but that cannot happen in the natural world
I documented the deliberate misdirection and him mocking me for not being able to find what is not there in this video:
Then I wrote up five ways to debunk his explanation and added it to my original article, “COVID deaths up 39% after vaccines rolled out in Ontario Canada.” It includes the paper I alluded to above. Can you guess which paper I’m talking about?
Hint: It’s 62 pages long and the authors work at a top university and it was viscously attacked in the media, but if you read it, you’ll be very impressed. All my “misinformation spreader” friends have high praise for this paper.
Did I miss anything in my five ways to counter his argument?
The bottom line is he couldn’t come up with a plausible explanation for the 39% increase. You can start with this tweet and scroll up to read backwards to see most of the discussion (the article below includes the full discussion):
Note
I have greater respect for Daniel Wilson than Ian Copeland.
Copeland refused to supply an explanation and then went on twitter to explain it was the variants. Also, Copeland is nearly 100% insults in his conversations and Wilson is around 70-30 insults. At least Wilson comes up with explanations that would fool a lot of people.
Wilson is familiar with the data and the papers and on the surface, makes arguments that sound plausible if you aren’t familiar with the literature.
Susan Oliver (and her dog Cindy) I actually respect more than Wilson because Susan (or maybe it is Cindy working behind the scenes) actually does a lot of work in researching her videos such as the one she did on Mark Skidmore’s paper. But she deliberately neglects to show you her “corrected” result on the Skidmore paper. So she’s not an intellectually honest scientist at all. If you make the minor corrections that she points out, the results are still devastating for the narrative. If she’s honest, she would give the number.
Your opinion
Summary
It’s funny that when I ask people to explain the Ontario result, I get different answers from different people. All of them hand-waving. Every time.
That tells you pretty much everything you need to know.
None of them can explain the data.
That’s the problem they have. That Ontario COVID death data is a very inconvenient truth. See COVID deaths up 39% after vaccines rolled out in Ontario Canada for the whole dialog with Wilson.
R Marcucio is not a subscriber and seems to have differing views. He is UCSF Professor Ralph S Marcucio who has a h-index of 51. I've emailed him and invited him to a live civil discussion, but Wayne did that earlier and he REFUSED.
45 Times as Many Deaths After COVID Shots in Just 2 Years Compared With All Flu Vaccine-Related Deaths Since 1990, Data Show
“Our meta-analysis of both national and international vaccine adverse events emphasizes the importance of re-evaluating public health policies that promote universal mass injection and multiple boosters for all demographic groups,” said the authors of a peer-reviewed study published this month in the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice, and Research.
Eliana Romero, Ph.D., director of clinical research at the Neurodiversity Foundation, Shawn Fry, founder and chief science officer of the Neurodiversity Foundation and Brian Hooker, Ph.D., P.E., chief scientific officer of Children’s Health Defense and associate professor of biology at Simpson University in Redding, California, authored the paper.
The researchers looked at adverse events specifically related to cardiovascular and fertility health — such as myocarditis and menstrual abnormalities — that went overlooked during the “expedited safety analyses” that took place in the “accelerated approval process that allowed the manufacturers to fast-track their products,” they said.