The practice of press releasing early research in the midst of a public health crisis is an extremely worrying trend. It damages public trust in science at a time when that is dangerous. This study just shows that it can replicate inside cells in a lab, not inside patients.
but science is a messy process! our communications are an absolute mess, it's true, as is our media, that shut down and made fun of so much of the inital alarm. everyone was told "don't cause panic" back then too -- what actually happened was people didn't pay attention!
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You don’t deal with the problem ‘science is messy’ by dispensing with the exact processes designed to make it less messy. You don’t go ‘this car is out of control, better remove the brake pedal!’
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you may be misunderstanding me. the reality of science is that it's messy, period. the process for shielding others from the messiness of science can't be allowed to interfere with the essential messiness of science. that's why we need things like sci-hub and medrxiv / biorxiv
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