Twitter Bans Rational Ground Writer and Analyst

Here's what we know so far!

Our powerhouse Team Reality colleague Jessica Hockett (aka @EWoodhouse7) was banned from Twitter over the weekend. She has been a stellar advocate for reason and data-backed analysis during the pandemic. Her efforts lead to big discoveries and one particular inquiry forced the CDC to totally revamp its numbers.

In the past few days multiple Rational Ground/Team Reality members include Daniel Kotzin, Andrew Bostom and Kevin McKernan.

We’ll be talking with Jessica at noon pacific today on the podcast:

(you can find the podcast on Spotify and Apple iTunes as well)

Here’s a quick excerpt from Jessica over at her excellent Substack!

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Twitter Has Permanently Suspended My Account

The *offending* post was not what I expected

Twitter permanently suspended my account on Saturday, simultaneous to locking it over a tweet I posted on April 21, 2022.

“After careful review,” it was determined that I “broke the Twitter rules” — namely, “violating [their] policy on spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to COVID-19.”

I still have read-only access to my account in the Twitter app, which shows the *offending* tweet is now labeled “Misleading”.

Let’s take a closer look…

The *Offending* Post

The *offending* post is the second in a 2-tweet thread. In the first tweet, I quote-tweeted a thread from the American Academy of Pediatrics, in which the organization advocates continued use toddler-masking until the age 0-4 vaccine receives an EUA.

I shared my distrust of pediatricians as whole, as a result of what I believe many (but not all) have done during the pandemic.

I later added a tweet from Lawyer Mom (@legallymom2) that, in my opinion and based on current data, is an example of a pediatrician’s dishonesty about the risk of Covid infection versus vaccine-induced myocarditis in teen boys. Her post is a QT of Dr. Tracy Hoeg’s excellent overview of a recently-published study on that topic.

Lawyer mom @legallymom2

Nothing to see here. I asked my Pediatrican 1000x about myocarditis risk in teen boys and was told repeatedly that the risk was far greater from infection. Now we know not only is that not true, but the vaccines don’t (and didn’t in my teen boys) prevent infection

Tracy Høeg, MD, PhD @TracyBethHoeg

Massive Nordic study finds risk of post-vaccination myo/pericarditis resulting in hospitalization in males 16-24 of 380/million (1/2600) post pfizer-moderna combination This is 28x higher than the 13.7/million rate they found post-covid🧵 https://t.co/oIhI5GcimH

As far as I know, neither of these tweets was reported, and both are still posted.

Fourth Strike, You’re Out?

READ THE ENTIRE PIECE OVER AT HER SUBSTACK