Our guest is Michael Acree author of https://amzn.to/3Do4aIT (The Myth of Statistical Inference), published by Springer earlier this year. Dr. Acree is a former statistician at the University of California San Francisco. This is the first episode in a 2-part series. GUEST: Michael Acree, PhD. RELATED EPISODE: https://accadandkoka.com/episode57/ (Ep. 57) Neither Fisher nor Bayes:The Limits of Statistical Inference WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/evf_oRNQv9A (Watch the episode) on our...

Our guest is Dr. Paul Marik, an acclaimed academic leader in critical care medicine who has also taken controversial positions over the years about the treatment of patients, most notably recently about using Ivermectin as part of a treatment protocol for COVID-19. We discuss his career and the tension between the knowledge that comes from clinical experience and that derived from formalized clinical studies. GUEST: Paul Marik, MD: https://www.evms.edu/directory/profiles/paul-e-marik.php...

Our guest is Jason Abaluck, Professor of Economics at the Yale School of Management and one of the principal investigators of the Bangladesh cluster randomized trial of community masking that was just https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi9069 (published) in Science. GUEST: Jason Abaluck, PhD: https://twitter.com/Jabaluck (Twitter) and https://faculty.som.yale.edu/jasonabaluck/ (faculty webpage) RELATED EPISODE: https://accadandkoka.com/episode187/ (Ep. 187.) That Bangladesh Mask...

Our guest is Ben Recht, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley, who recently got hold of and analyzed the raw data from the Bangladesh cluster randomized control trial of masking which made headlines in September. GUEST: Ben Recht: https://twitter.com/beenwrekt (Twitter) and https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~brecht/?_ga=2.137066873.835125709.1638047158-1360907758.1638047158 (webpage) LINKS: Ben Recht's recent blog post:...

Our guest is Jenin Younes, a Litigation Counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance. She joins us to discuss her involvement in advocacy and in legal challenges against vaccine mandates. She holds a B.A. degree from Cornell University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. She has been featured on several national media outlets for her commentary and she recently penned...

Our guest is James Heathers, physiologist, scientist, and part-time "data thug" who's developed the technique of sniffing out fraudulent or highly erroneous scientific publications into an art. He has recently published "https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/ivermectin-research-problems/620473/ (The Real Scandal About Ivermectin)," an article in The Atlantic featuring an analysis that he and his colleagues have performed identifying devastating flaws in some randomized control...

Our guest is Vinay Prasad, hematologist-oncologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. He is the author of over 300 academic articles, and the books https://www.amazon.com/Ending-Medical-Reversal-Improving-Outcomes/dp/1421417723/ (Ending Medical Reversal) (2015), and https://www.amazon.com/Malignant-Policy-Evidence-People-Cancer/dp/1421437635/ (Malignant) (2020). We have a wide-ranging conversation covering...

Our guest in Dr. Cody Meissner, Chief of Pediatric Infectious Disease at Tufts University School of Medicine, and member of the FDA's Vaccine and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) who recently approved the EUA for Pfizer's COVID vaccine for children ages 5-11. GUEST: H. Cody Meissner, MD: https://www.tuftschildrenshospital.org/physiciandirectory/h-cody-meissner (Webpage) WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/ET9aTrTfXOQ (Watch the episode) on our YouTube channel.

Our guest is Dr. Paul Offit, an expert on vaccines, immunology, and virology. He is the Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, Professor of Pediatrics at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the Vaccine Education Center at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is also a member of the FDA's Vaccines and Related Biologic Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) which recently approved the EUA for the Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine for children...

Our guest is Dr. Joel Zivot, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. Ho also holds a Masters degree in ethics and is a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Emory University Center for Ethics. He shares his personal experience with and perspective on the reality of death by lethal injection and discusses why the medical profession should not serve as an arm of the State. GUEST: Joel Zivot, MD: https://mobile.twitter.com/joel_zivot (Twitter) and...

Our guest is Eli Klein, a gallery owner in Manhattan who became a scourge to governor Andrew Cuomo for his handling of the pandemic. GUEST: Eli Klein: https://twitter.com/TheEliKlein (Twitter) and http://www.galleryek.com/ (Website) WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/hUShgHdoa8Y (Watch the episode) on our YouTube channel.

Our guest is Dr. Shawn Whatley, returning to the show to discuss a recent essay introducing conservative principles to a health care audience steeped in a liberal tradition. GUEST: Shawn Whatley, MD. https://shawnwhatley.com/ (Blog) and https://twitter.com/shawn_whatley?lang=en (Twitter) LINK: Shawn Whatley. How to Get Canada off the Health Care Teeter-Totter (at https://thehub.ca/2021-10-12/shawn-whatley-how-to-get-canada-off-the-health-care-teeter-totter/ (The Hub)) BOOKS BY DR....

Our guests are John Mandrola and Bogdan Enache, returning to the show to wrap up our series on "Adventures and Misadventures in Defibrillation." GUESTS: John Mandrola, MD: https://twitter.com/drjohnm (Twitter) and https://drjohnm.org/ (Website) Bogdan Enache, MD: https://twitter.com/bogdienache?lang=en (Twitter) LINKS: Michel Accad. The case against shared decision-making http://alertandoriented.com/the-case-against-shared-decision-making-1/ (part 1),...

Our guest is journalist and author David Zweig, one of the few voices in the media that dared to question the public health narrative and was able to scoop major stories about the pandemic that were ignored by the mainstream outlets. GUEST: David Zweig: https://davidzweig.com/ (Webpage) and https://twitter.com/davidzweig (Twitter) WATCH ON YOUTUBE https://youtu.be/VdXV08eUcOY (Watch the episode) on our YouTube channel.

Our guest is Brian Miller, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Business (courtesy) at the Johns Hopkins University. He is a practicing hospitalist, health policy researcher, and health policy analyst, working as a consultant to the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection on health insurance. He is also a member of the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee, the UNC-NC State Biomedical Engineering Department Industrial Advisory Board, and the Keck Graduate Institute School of...

Our guest is Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Medicine and Health Policy at Stanford University. Professor Bhattacharya is also research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and director of the Stanford Center on the Demography of Health and Aging. Dr. Bhattacharya gained international prominence during the COVID pandemic for his contributions to determining the infection fatality rate of the virus, and...

Our guests are John, a patient with an extraordinary story to tell, and Dr. John Mandrola, a cardiac electrophysiologist from Louisville, KY. Dr. Mandrola is cardiology editor on Medscape where he writes a regular column and produces a weekly podcast. He is also the co-author of The Haywire Heart: How Too Much Exercise Can Kill You and What You Can Do To Protect Your Heart. https://www.amazon.com/Haywire-Heart-exercise-protect-heart/dp/1937715671 GUEST: John Mandrola, MD:...

Our guest is Euzebiusz (Zeb) Jamrozik, MD, PhD, a practicing internal medicine physician and fellow in ethics and infectious diseases at the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford. He is head of the Monash-WHO Collaborating Centre for bioethics at the Monash Bioethics Centre. His academic work on infectious disease ethics is focused on vaccines, vector-borne disease, and drug resistance. Dr Jamrozik is lead author of the report of a Wellcome Trust funded project...

Our guests are Thomas Wingert, a patient, https://twitter.com/bogdienache?lang=en (Bogdan Enache), an electrophysiologist at Centre Hospitalier Princesse Grace in Monaco, and https://twitter.com/roguerad (Saurabh Jha), an Associate Professor of Radiology at the Perelman School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania. LINK: https://www.jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.jacep.2021.03.006 (Point/Counterpoint on Halting the Implantation of Subcutaneous ICD). Editorial by B. Enache and J. Mandrola in...

Our guest is Ted Okon, a nationally recognized expert on the policy and politics of cancer care. Mr. Okon has testified before Congress on cancer issues and is frequently on Capitol Hill discussing the nation’s cancer care delivery system. GUEST: Ted Okon: https://twitter.com/TedOkonCOA (Twitter) and Community Oncology Alliance https://communityoncology.org/leadership/ted-okon/ (website) WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/hDCWU72v-P0 (Watch the episode) on our YouTube channel

Our guest is Professor David Heymann is an American physician and epidemiologist based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has held leading positions at the WHO for more than 20 years, coordinating global responses to epidemics such as Ebola, AIDS, polio, and SARS. He also served as Chairman of Public Health England from 2009 until 2017. He shares his perspectives on post-pandemic life and on opportunities for the public health sector. GUEST: David Heymann:...

In the aftermath of the dramatic surge of COVID cases and deaths in India, Michel Accad and Anish Koka revisit the question of lockdowns and the principles that should inform the response to epidemics. WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/s6vN5w6Fz7w (Watch the episode) on our YouTube channel RELATED EPISODES: https://accadandkoka.com/episodes/episode162/ (Ep. 162) A Libertarian's Case for Lockdowns, with Chris Snowdon https://accadandkoka.com/episodes/episode160/ (Ep. 160) Elise Amez-Droz:...

Our guest is Dr. Anupam Singh, Assistant Professor of Medicine at SMC in Ghaziabad, who is in the thick of the COVID crisis in Delhi. He shares his perspective on the situation. GUEST: Dr. Anupam Singh’s https://twitter.com/anupampom?lang=en (Twitter) and https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anupam_Singh9/contributions?ev=prf_act (ResearchGate profile) WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/PN82yVMpc6s (Watch the episode) on our YouTube channel

Our guest is Dr. Somalaram Venkatesh, interventional cardiologist In private practice in Bengaluru, India. He shares his thoughts on the current severe surge of COVID in India. Dr. Venkatesh obtained his medical degree and completed his cardiology training at PGI, Chandigarh. He is now director of cardiology at Aster Hospital, Bengaluru. GUEST: Somalaram Venkatesh, MD: https://twitter.com/serioustaurean (Twitter )and Professional...

Our guest is Dan Morgan, MD, MS, a physician and epidemiologist in Baltimore, Maryland. He is Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Chief Hospital Epidemiologist at the Baltimore VAMC, and a fellow at the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP). We discuss a recent paper he co-authored about probabilistic diagnostic reasoning among clinicians. GUEST: Dan Morgan https://twitter.com/dr_dmorgan (Twitter) and...