[karaterobot]

I didn't get the sense that he was claiming any kind of authority, and he was pretty up front about selection bias. He wrote:

> I am not an epidemiologist, let alone a virologist. And the data I am working with is substandard anyway, as there are all sorts of obvious selection biases at play, including the editorial biases of the journalists on whom I rely for local reports.

[f38zf5vdt]

Adding a disclaimer like this to the middle rather than all the places in the article where they might be implying that SSEs only occur in certain documented situations is disingenuous at best and deliberately misleading at worst, in my opinion.

[renewiltord]

Is it really disingenuous at best? Like you think the best case scenario is that this guy is being insincere. I sincerely think this approach of just assuming bad faith is not useful.

[MikeTheGreat]

"all the places in the article where they might be implying..." seems kinda over the top.

I think a better thing to do would be to refactor the disclaimer and put it at the top/start of the article.