if that name sounds familiar, and I may be spelling it wrong, it should. Remember in 2020 when Stanford and then USC came out with groundbreaking studies that said a surprisingly high number of people had already been exposed to Covid and we were MUCH closer to herd immunity than experts thought? They were pushing to reopen saying we were months away from herd immunity based on their studies.
then statistics people started looking at their study and calling out massive basic statistics mistakes that led to absurd results.
Then it came out that the way they had sampled for the study was preposterous, they used Facebook ads to get subjects for a test that would determine if they had the antibody for Covid or not. It was supposed to be random but as part of it, the wife of one of the doctors, Jay B's wife, sent an email to a email list of parents at the school where their kids attended in Palo Alto, a school that had literally just had a big Covid outbreak.
so the data they got was both flawed because they didnt' properly account for false positives in their statistics, and they had an inordinately high amount of people who had the antibodies because they knowingly sampled a population of parents who had just had an outbreak at their kids school.
Based on that, Jay B and Scott Atlas then called to reopen the country, we're months away from herd immunity, the experts are wrong we're destroying the economy for nothing.
Jay is actually a physician not an epidemiologist and he actually is an economist so he was looking at it strictly economically, staying closed was bad for the economy so he pretty clear put out inaccurate data to try and support that. He has been campaigning since then that Stanford tried to "silence" him blah blah. Atlas of course eventually ended up on the Covid task force when Trump was mad that Fauci was getting too much press and decided they needed to blame Fauci.