# Conducting field experiments

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [April 14, 2020, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conducting-field-experiments/851779 "2020-04-14T16:54:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 14, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/conducting-field-experiments/851779/7 "2020-04-14T18:04:43Z")

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> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#):
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> Since you keep popping up on these threads with your…unique…suggestions for how to handle a pandemic and your accusations that “the news” and public health estimates are misleading the public for their own ends (whatever they may be), maybe you could illuminate the rest of us as to your expertise in epidemiology, public health, and treatment of infectious disease?
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> Stranger

'E’s a doctor . . . kinda, sorta, if you squint really hard, or maybe a surgeon,

> [@The media is driving our defensive actions not science!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-media-is-driving-our-defensive-actions-not-science/851355/92):
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> {…} my job has always been fixing trucks. {…}

CMC fnord!

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