A couple of commenters pointed me to the story of John Ioannidis and Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz. David Gorski tells the tale. Ioannidis still seems to be dealing with the after-effects of his extrapolation last year that there might be 10,000 coronavirus deaths in the United States. This was just a back-of-the-envelope calculation, and as Gorski says, …