This seems really misjudged and irresponsible when everyone is trying to push the message, "Trust expert scientists in their field".<p>"Except when they're joking, but you don't know enough about their field to tell if they're joking, so you just have to hope" is not a helpful message.<p>Whatever his goal actually was, it could have been achieved without damaging trust in scientists.
Big discussion a couple of days ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32355480" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32355480</a>
Why is there no outrage? He is a scientist and he lied. Why does he still have his Twitter account? How can anyone believe anything ‘scientists’ say about Covid? About climate change?