Tha’ Notorious VP returns to talk about the numbers around mandates, booster science or lack thereof, masking young kids, and more!Check out Dr. Vinay Prasad’s YouTube channel here and here are the other episodes we’ve done together. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/vinay-mandates/   Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 0:31 The science on masking young children 6:29 Criticizing irrational views held by rational people, kids’ masking 9:47 Bangladesh mask study promoting surgical masks over cloth in adults 13:29 Vaccine mandates, do they make sense to actually improve outcomes, an analysis 23:18 What’s going on with irrational college campus COVID policies, the testing industry’s influence on policy 27:16 FDA resignations and the controversy over COVID boosters 29:18 Flaws/bias in Israeli vaccine data sets 32:00 Boosters in healthy people, the FDA resignations, and political pressure 35:42 Creating psychological reactance and tribalization in response to mandates and poor communication 38:05 The John Mandrola myocarditis study controversy 44:04 #medtwitter madness and using vaccines off-label for kids 52:06 The Ivermectin overreaction in the media 54:32 The modern sense-making crisis and the influence of social media in sowing division and culture wars 58:17 Vinay’s possible dystopian scenario on government overreach 1:03:41 Why the haters, and why block people on Twitter, credentialism, Alt-Middle, religion and science, and more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices