This article is just bad. It's ~2000 words of Ioannidis fan service sandwiching just ~200 words attempting, and failing, to sum up the controversy behind his Santa Clara study, the one statisticians were dunking on with screen shots on Twitter. If the article is supposed to be explaining the controversy behind Ioannidis' C19 work, it needs to actually engage with that controversy, not simply attribute it to a political movement.