Talk:Michael Mina (epidemiologist)

Notes about the creation of this page
For this page I put a solid 15 hours of research - reading papers and articles - 15 hours is a lot for me. Let me know here if I did anything wrong as this is not my first wikipedia edit but is my first article creation.

I first saw Dr. Mina on youtube summer of 2020 being interviewed on medcram about paper tests and have seen him in newspaper articles and on NPR radio and on more youtube interviews over the months and am really impressed with this guy and figured he deserves his own page as his notoriety escalates. I reached out to him for a photo and have it but to get proper licensing from the photographer will take a little more time.

Dr. Mina knows how to stop the epidemic. Everyone hates the paper tests but they could quite possibly end the pandemic long before vaccines can. Gr5555 (talk) 17:38, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

But he isn't notable, he's just another shill at a pharmaceutical industry daycare center. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:3D08:7885:F600:21F1:6B6B:52E4:3CDA (talk) 22:12, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

He only recently changed jobs to I believe a pharmeceutical company. Just a few months ago. I should look it up and add to the page but I have so damn much to do this week. He has not changed his message one bit. In fact he has been promoting rapid tests since spring of 2000 yet his lab did PCR test so he was pushing for the competing technology. Pharmecauticals actually make more money if the pandemic keeps going. Right? I haven't really thought about this much as his message has merit regardless of who promotes it. Some people actually really do want the pandemic to end and not for personal profit. Most scientists care about the truth and facts. It's part of the definition of what a scientist does. Most politicians don't care about the truth. Their job is to manipulate and seek power. Truth doesn't usually come into that. Liars exist in every profession but in some professions if you publish falsehoods you are likely to get fired and your career is likely to end (reporters and scientists). Gr5555 (talk) 04:13, 8 January 2022 (UTC)

Freehold, NJ
This comment was added by someone anonymously and I was skeptical. I couldn't find any references and was thinking of removing the edit but instead I DM tweeted Michael Mina and he says, yes, it's true, he was in Freehold until age 12. So I guess we can leave the mention in. It doesn't seem particularly relevant to his career though. Gr5555 (talk) 03:41, 11 September 2021 (UTC)