He published the correct IFR of 0.20 - 0.30%, which was known to every scientist since April 2020, but nobody dared to speak against politics and its agents who published numbers 10x as high. Everyone talked about a CFR of 3-5% and aburdly wrong models and predictions. The measurable good (baysian) models were ignored. Scientists who spoke out were censored, ridiculed or even fired from their jobs.
So of course he is evil for daring to counter the liers.
Now everyone should know that they lied, and Ioannidis was right. But politics are afraid of a right wing takeover. Rightly so, they should. We are at an IFR of 0.17% currently. We have an absurdly high percentage of asymptotic cases, and we don't know the rate of false-positives of PCR tests. The EMA lies, AZ lies, who knows who else. You can only read scientific papers or medical journals, the press and politics are far off. With 3 mill dead over 2 seasons it's still in the range of a normal strong flu season. A strong flu season has 0.650 - 2 mill deaths (per year, we have 2 seasons now, a 3rd expected), a normal season has 290.000 - 650.000.
Most of the article is talking about his completely unprofessional attacks against grad students, which are completely unacceptable even if he is countering the liars. This has little to do with going against the consensus.
We've also had about a 0.17% death rate assuming literally every person in the US has gotten covid, which is obviously not true. That makes a 0.2% IFR just clearly impossible.
tl;dr: Every single sentence in your comment is untrue.
An IFR of 0.17% is not even wrong.
That would result in at least 10 states in the US itself to have had more cases than their population [0]. Assuming 100% infection rates, the minimum IFR looks to be at least 0.3%.
Also, no flu season ever has crossed even 70,000 deaths [1]. So I have no idea where your numbers are coming from. In fact, the excess mortality in the US till October 2020 was close to half a million. And that was the before the worst of the December peak when 4,000 people were dying daily.
So of course he is evil for daring to counter the liers.
Now everyone should know that they lied, and Ioannidis was right. But politics are afraid of a right wing takeover. Rightly so, they should. We are at an IFR of 0.17% currently. We have an absurdly high percentage of asymptotic cases, and we don't know the rate of false-positives of PCR tests. The EMA lies, AZ lies, who knows who else. You can only read scientific papers or medical journals, the press and politics are far off. With 3 mill dead over 2 seasons it's still in the range of a normal strong flu season. A strong flu season has 0.650 - 2 mill deaths (per year, we have 2 seasons now, a 3rd expected), a normal season has 290.000 - 650.000.