Below is my section of a comprehensive interdisciplinary submission by the Australian Medical Professionals Society (AMPS) to the Australian excess mortality inquiry.
As always, I despair at the lack of clinical acumen shown by 90% of my profession (medicine), in blindly following the diktats of the technocratic and political classes.
One of the phrases that stuck with me most in my social science degree (an academic stream so often maligned as not being 'real science') was the idea that qualitative data can provide a 'thick description'. That is so very lacking from the official perspective of the impacts of the vaccination rollout, I'm afraid. I agree that social science can often be sloppy (I thought the grievance studies project was fantastic) but we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water IMO.
Fantastic work Rebekah.
As always, I despair at the lack of clinical acumen shown by 90% of my profession (medicine), in blindly following the diktats of the technocratic and political classes.
You put them to shame.
One of the phrases that stuck with me most in my social science degree (an academic stream so often maligned as not being 'real science') was the idea that qualitative data can provide a 'thick description'. That is so very lacking from the official perspective of the impacts of the vaccination rollout, I'm afraid. I agree that social science can often be sloppy (I thought the grievance studies project was fantastic) but we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water IMO.