Welcome. I'm Dr. Vinay Prasad. I'm a hematologist, oncologist, and I'm associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. In my professional life, I see patients, I teach trainees, and I do research in health care policy. This is Plenary Session.

Plenary Session is a podcast at the intersection of medicine, oncology, and health policy.

And you're listening to Season 3.

On this week's episode.

The evil doer.

That is Professor Marty Macquarie.

You know, normally every week you hear me say, if you're fan of this show, go support us on Patreon and get access to the slides.

I got something new to say this time.

I think the good old days are over.

We're living in a unique time where people are very happy to extinguish voices and ideas that they deem unfit for consumption.

And so I personally have gone on Patreon. I've supported a number of people who I listen to,

the podcast that I love. And I'm encouraging you to do the same. The only way we can combat this

growing force of illiberalism is to support with our dollar bills podcast we enjoy. So that's my plug.

I don't know if you've been keeping up with this story, but Marty Macri, professor

of surgery at Johns Hopkins University, health policy researcher, he got dinged by Facebook,

obviously, evil-doer Marty Maccary.

You see what Facebook did was they looked at the sea of Facebook posts.

There's total garbage and incorrect things said all over Facebook, but they zoomed in on

the greatest offender, Professor Marty Macri.

And his Wall Street Journal opinion piece, his opinion article on the Wall Street Journal. What was his transgression?

His transgression was Marty predicted by the end of April that we will be achieving herd immunity

and that we can relax restrictions. So Facebook took that really seriously. People were tweeting it.

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