I think it was reasonable to assume that you’d be familiar with Cohen, since you were the one who linked that On the Media podcast episode, which was a 15 minute interview with Cohen!
As far as Rebekah Jones, the connection here is that Rachel Cohen has been introduced at least twice in this stream of COVID threads. Once in the On the Media podcast, and earlier when Dan posted this:
https://twitter.com/georebekah/status/1321445110819729412?s=21
and I agree with @bobman0330 in responding to that piece:
I’m still kind of at a loss about what people find so objectionable about Oster. Cohen’s think piece and her interview both sounded to me like complaints about how other people are interpreting Oster’s articles, and that Oster’s data wasn’t as rich as they wanted it to be. Having read Oster’s articles, they all seem to include the caveats that opponents like to point out.
I think this is an excellent commentary (from an epidemiologist) on Oster’s stuff:
https://twitter.com/WhitneyEpi/status/1321460031146151950