Justin and Mark Cuban go One-on-One

Cuban has some ideas for Elon Musk's Twitter 2.0 that are very, very bad

If you’re a longtime reader of Rational Ground and a certified member of Team Reality (aka, you’re not now wearing a mask anywhere) then you have probably forgotten more about Covid than more people actually know right now.

Mark Cuban would be in the latter group.

Mark Cuban, star of “Shark Tank” and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, weighed in with a proposal to Elon Musk on how to deal with “medical info and mis-information” on Twitter 2.0.

Sadly, Mark had TURNED OFF comments on his tweet, so I tweeted aloud:

Hey @mcuban - why don’t you let people chime in on this terrible idea instead of blocking comments? Letting licensed physicians set policy for the last 3 years is what got us in this mess. They were wrong on almost everything.

That didn’t seem to sit well with him:

I was puzzled because I didn’t mention ANYTHING about licensing or med school or boards or residencies. Instead, I was reflecting what I wrote in my book, Gone Viral:

We gave the keys of the kingdom to people who hadn’t seen a patient in thirty years. These were politicians, not actively working doctors. They certainly were not policy experts. They were entrenched bureaucrats.

I replied to Mark:

credentials ≠ truth. Also, consensus ≠ truth.

Then I rattled off my now infamous list:

Justin Hart@justin_hart

@mcuban Did the “licensed experts” get anything right?! - Transmission—wrong - PCR—wrong - Fatality rate—wrong - Lockdowns—wrong - School closures—wrong - Quarantine healthy—wrong - Hospital overload—wrong - Plexiglass—wrong - Social distancing—wrong - Masks—wrong - Vx efficacy—wrong

3:39 PM · Dec 4, 2022

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If we were to give 1000 people a “vote” in rubber-stamping approval for a medical policy - we would be masking and mandating FORVER.

Others chimed in:

Matt Beebe@TheMattBeebe

@Ravarora1 @justin_hart @mcuban I think that observation is exactly right. His proposal presupposes absolute trust in the ability of credentialism to effectively converge on truth at scale. The problem is we’ve seen up close that it doesn’t… indeed his proposal squelches disrupters and amplifies consensus.

11:52 PM · Dec 4, 2022

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This follower knows the truth:

Aaron Harrison@AaronONU

@justin_hart @mcuban Something tells me that the 1,000+ MDs who would eagerly to volunteer for this responsibility are the LAST people I'd want to give it to.

1:27 PM · Dec 4, 2022

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The debate raged on and El Gato entered the fray:

it's amazing to me that even after this number of uncontestably catastrophic fails, the cult of expert worship persists, but is would seem there is just no extinguishing the authoritarian flame in some folks.

My good friend Dr. Jay B. threw his 2 cents in:

Jay Bhattacharya@DrJBhattacharya

This suggestion by @mcuban, if followed, would be the death of science, in which truth is not determined by democracy. It would nevertheless be better than Twitter 1.0, which designated lockdown advocates as experts and censored experts who knew better.

Mark Cuban @mcuban

@elonmusk, a suggestion relating to medical info and mis-infornation. Why not put together a Twitter list of 1k+ licensed, practicing, medical drs and allow them to vote on issues so us tweeps can see what they think? Let them vote on Vax safety, masks or any topic you pick

1:15 PM · Dec 4, 2022

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Mark is very touchy:

Mark Cuban@mcuban

@DrJBhattacharya While you were shouting to try to be proven right, all you did was add to the uncertainty as everyone made decisions using ever evolving data. And now, again, your big accomplishment appears to be you think you were proven right.

4:35 AM · Dec 5, 2022

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The debate rages on!