Eric Feigl-Ding
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Eric Liang Feigl-Ding (born March 28, 1983) is an American public health scientist who is currently an epidemiologist and Chief of COVID Task Force at the New England Complex Systems Institute.[1] He was formerly a faculty member and researcher at Harvard Medical School and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also the Chief Health Economist for Microclinic International, and co-founder of the World Health Network.[2] His research and advocacy have primarily focused on obesity, nutrition, cancer prevention, and biosecurity.
In January 2020, Feigl-Ding sounded an early alarm about
Early life and education
Feigl-Ding was born in Shanghai, and his family emigrated to the United States when he was five years old.[12] He was raised in South Dakota[13] and Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, where he graduated from Shippensburg Area Senior High School[14] and is an alumnus of the Pennsylvania Governor's Schools of Excellence.[15]
In 2004, he completed his undergraduate studies at
Work
Research and work
Feigl-Ding's work focuses on epidemiology, health economics, and nutrition. He is the Chief of the COVID Risk Task Force at the New England Complex Systems Institute. He was a Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists. He was a researcher at the Harvard Medical School, and at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.[1]
Feigl-Ding is also the Chief Health Economist at Microclinic International,
In 2006, while completing his doctorate at Harvard, Feigl-Ding co-authored a study on
On January 20, 2020, Feigl-Ding went viral
Controversies concerning epidemiological expertise and accuracy
Feigl-Ding holds
Feigl-Ding's rapid rise to prominence as a TV and media commentator and expert during the
His tweets during the pandemic have also at times been criticized by other scientists as alarmist, misleading, and inaccurate.[10][11][9]
Political campaign
Feigl-Ding was a candidate in the 2018 Democratic primary for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district.[34][35] On February 27, 2018, Feigl-Ding announced his candidacy in the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania's 10th congressional district.[17] He campaigned on a progressive platform advocating for science, universal healthcare, and public health.[17] During the run up to the election, Feigl-Ding did not take corporate PAC money.[35] He received 18% of the vote to George Scott's 36% in a 4-person primary.[34]
Awards and recognition
Feigl-Ding's graduate studies were supported by the
References
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- ^ "World Health Network".
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Wallace-Wells, David (2020-03-26). "Why Was It So Hard to Raise the Alarm on the Coronavirus?". New York. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ^ a b c d "Who qualifies as a 'real expert' when it comes to coronavirus?". Times Higher Education (THE). 2020-03-31. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
- ^ a b c d "The Tweet Heard Round the World". Arlington Magazine. 2020-04-30. Retrieved 2021-12-15.
- ^ "America's COVID-19 'whistleblower'". NewsComAu. September 25, 2020.
- ^ a b Staff Reporter (2020-03-28). "Scientist Warned of the Danger of COVID-19, but No One Listened". Science Times. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
- ^ a b c d Madrigal, Alexis C. (2020-01-28). "How to Misinform Yourself About the Coronavirus". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-02-01.
- ^ a b Kupferschmidt, Kai. "Studying—and fighting—misinformation should be a top scientific priority, biologist argues". www.science.org. Science. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
In early 2020, for example, he took on Eric Feigl-Ding, a nutritional epidemiologist then at Harvard Chan who amassed a huge following with what many scientists felt were alarmist tweets....Feigl-Ding rang the alarm many times—he is "very, very concerned" about every new variant, Bergstrom says, and "will tweet about how it's gonna come kill us all"—but turned out to be right on some things. "It's misinformation if you present these things as certainties and don't adequately reflect the degree of uncertainty that we have," Bergstrom says.
- ^ a b c d e Hu, Jane (25 November 2020). "Covid's Cassandra: The Swift, Complicated Rise of Eric Feigl-Ding". Undark Magazine. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
But as Feigl-Ding's influence has grown, so have the voices of his critics, many of them fellow scientists who have expressed ongoing concern over his tweets, which they say are often unnecessarily alarmist, misleading, or sometimes just plain wrong.
- ^ a b Haelle, Tara (March 11, 2020). "During COVID-19 pandemonium, be sure to vet your sources for the right expertise". Association of Health Care Journalists. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
Yet Feigl-Ding's followers rapidly grew, from around 2,000 to now more than 109,000, as they voraciously consumed Feigl-Ding's often misleading, inaccurate or exaggerated tweets.
- ^ Mervis, Jeffrey (2018-05-22). "Defeated but unbowed: Two Pennsylvania scientists regroup after primary loss". Science | AAAS. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
- ^ "How restrictions affect the spread of COVID-19". 2020-11-20. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
- ^ "SASHS grad Dr Eric Ding urges students to follow their passion". 2017-10-26. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
- ^ "Pennsylvania Governor's School". Archived from the original on 2009-06-06. Retrieved 2019-08-10.
- ^ "MED Student Awarded Soros Fellowship | BU Today". Boston University.
- ^ a b c d "Public health scientist hopes to take his activism to Congress". Science | AAAS. May 9, 2018.
- ^ a b c "Meet the Fellows: Eric Feigl-Ding". Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Archived from the original on 2022-04-21. Retrieved 2022-11-12.
- ^ "Microclinic International". Microclinic International. Archived from the original on September 4, 2018.
- ^ "MLB Dead Weight: Fatness, Mortality Up". www.cbsnews.com. 9 March 2010.
- ^ 'Contagious' program helps Bell County residents get healthier
- ^ "Texts For Healthy Teens: A Health Education Program for Adolescents - Full Text View - ClinicalTrials.gov". clinicaltrials.gov. 14 November 2016.
- ^ "Research and innovation". European Commission - European Commission.
- ^ "New, Comprehensive Analysis Shows Rofecoxib (VIOXX), But Not Other COX-2 Inhibitor Drugs, Increases Risks of Adverse Kidney and Heart Rhythm Disorders". Harvard School of Public Health. Archived from the original on 2008-04-23. Retrieved 2020-07-10.
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- ^ a b c d "This Coronavirus 'Alarmist' Looks Pretty Good Right Now". The Daily Beast. 2020-05-09. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ^ "Coronavirus inaction: Could leaders have blood on their hands?". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ^ a b c d e Bartlett, Tom. "This Harvard Epidemiologist Is Very Popular on Twitter. But Does He Know What He's Talking About?". www.chronicle.com. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ Haelle, Tara (March 11, 2020). "During COVID-19 pandemonium, be sure to vet your sources for the right expertise". Association of Health Care Journalists. Retrieved March 21, 2021.
- ^ Madrigal, Alexis C. (2020-01-28). "How to Misinform Yourself About the Coronavirus". The Atlantic. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
- ^ "Social Media Conversations in Support of Herd Immunity are Driven by Bots". Federation of American Scientists. 2020-10-30. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ^ a b "Eric Ding". Ballotpedia.
- ^ a b Ding, Eric (May 11, 2018). "I'm running for Congress because facts matter". pennlive.
- ^ "16 People and Organizations Changing the World in 2012". December 26, 2011.
- ^ "Global Shapers Alumni Network". GlobalShapers.org. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
- ^ "Consortium of Universities for Global Health - Fifth Annual Global Health Conference" (PDF).
- ^ "AHA Connections Spring 2015". aha-365.ascendeventmedia.com.
- ^ "Harvard Chan faculty members among most highly cited". Harvard Chan School of Public Health. 2020-03-31. Retrieved 2021-04-17.
- ^ "Global Highly Cited Researchers 2018 List Reveals Influential Scientific Researchers and their Institutions". Clarivate. 2018-11-27.
External links
- Official website
- Eric Feigl-Ding at IMDb