Benefit Analysts
I prefer being a Cost-Benefit Analyst, but the intervention harm denialists are a peculiar sub-specialist:
The Benefit Analyst
Jay Bhattacharya@DrJBhattacharya
We need a catchy term for the lockdown harm denialists: "kids are resilient", "depression won't lead to suicide", "inflation has nothing to do with lockdown", etc. Denial is psychologically necessary because smart people can't accept they supported such disaster. But they did.
6:55 PM · Sep 18, 2022
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they also supported discrimination, segregation, coercion, authoritarianism, censorship, forced imprisonment, a two tiered system and a whole slew of other really horrible things while still being able to sleep at night, face themselves in the mirror and think of themselves as "good." wrong!
A bit like the Green New Dealers -- "there's only upside!"
Or the fairy tales told by the German Economic Minister whose qualification for the job was.... wait for it...
... being the author of children's books.