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2020-05-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Married Florida data scientist axed for refusing to alter COVID-19 stats was fired from university job
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Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 Like, who cares about her proclivities? If she refused to alter data, good for her. Weird that the article lists a bunch of stuff totally irrelevant vis-a-vis the COVID-19 stats.
Posted by Clem 2020-05-27 00:15||   2020-05-27 00:15|| Front Page Top

#2 No one asked her to alter data. They asked her to temporarily disable the export capability until they had verified the data.

She also didn't "lead" anyone. She was a data entry clerk managing entering the data into a commercial service that generates the reports for you. She was the lowest ranking person on the team, and could have been replaced with anyone computer literate.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-05-27 00:21||   2020-05-27 00:21|| Front Page Top

#3  Like, who cares about her proclivities?

It speaks to patterns of behavior.
Whacky in uno, Whacky in omnibus, or however that Latin saying goes.

Nice summary, by the way, Rob. 'Tis a pity actual journalists can't do as well.


Posted by SteveS 2020-05-27 00:38||   2020-05-27 00:38|| Front Page Top

#4 She gave birth to a little girl in mid-2018

Better than giving birth to a full sized girl, I suppose.
Posted by gorb 2020-05-27 00:59||   2020-05-27 00:59|| Front Page Top

#5 ^Who's the dad?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-27 03:43||   2020-05-27 03:43|| Front Page Top

#6 "Rebekah Jones led a team of Florida Department of Health scientists and public health officers..."

So how could she be the "lowest-ranking member" of a team that she lead??

Definitely seems like a weirdo, but is the story about her refusing to alter stats or a biography/rap sheet of her?
Posted by Clem 2020-05-27 06:43||   2020-05-27 06:43|| Front Page Top

#7 She's a liar and insubordinate.
Posted by Frank G 2020-05-27 09:09||   2020-05-27 09:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Clem, Rob is accurate
Posted by Frank G 2020-05-27 09:11||   2020-05-27 09:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Then, guys, I must be missing something. If I need to cough up a dollar, let me know!
Posted by Clem 2020-05-27 09:14||   2020-05-27 09:14|| Front Page Top

#10 More detail on why she was fired
Posted by Frank G 2020-05-27 09:23||   2020-05-27 09:23|| Front Page Top

#11 She's getting the media darling treatment, so the truth takes a bit of digging.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-27 11:05||   2020-05-27 11:05|| Front Page Top

#12 What does 'Shares an 8 year old son' mean?

Woman is fugginkookoo, but again with misleading headlines.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-27 11:52||   2020-05-27 11:52|| Front Page Top

#13 From Frank G.’s link:

Jones has not alleged any tampering with data on deaths, hospital symptom surveillance, hospitalizations for COVID-19, numbers of new confirmed cases, or overall testing rates — core elements of any assessment of the outbreak and of federal criteria for reopening. And Jones acknowledges Florida has been relatively transparent — for which she herself claims some credit — and relatively successful in controlling the pandemic.

She has, however, suggested Health Department managers wanted her to manipulate information to paint a rosier picture and that she pushed back. In an interview late Friday on CNN she finally cited some detail, after several days of vague statements.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-27 12:14||   2020-05-27 12:14|| Front Page Top

#14 Linda Tripp = lying skank, according to the media

Paula Jones = lying skank, according to the media

Tara Reed = lying skank, according to the media

Blasey Ford = heroic truth teller, according to media

Julie Swetnick = only Avenatti would touch that one.

Stormie Daniels = only Avenatti would touch that one.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders = lying skank, according to the media

Kayleigh McEnany = lying skank, according to the media.

See the pattern?
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-27 12:15||   2020-05-27 12:15|| Front Page Top

#15 In an interview late Friday on CNN she finally cited some detail, after several days of vague statements.

Yes. Florida is not New York, New Jersey or Michigan. I'm sure she's lawyered up now and walking a tight rope. It will be a contest between her lawyer's advice and CNN's editors' coaching. She gets it wrong, some part of her anatomy will be caught in a wringer.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-05-27 12:21||   2020-05-27 12:21|| Front Page Top

#16 Writes a detailed 350 page book about having sex with (at least 1) a student. Last week being asked to commit fraud by the government, details are a bit fuzzy.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-05-27 13:33||   2020-05-27 13:33|| Front Page Top

#17 Her 15 minutes are almost up. Tick tock
Posted by Lex 2020-05-27 14:02||   2020-05-27 14:02|| Front Page Top

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