There are other ways to communicate with fellow scientists that aren’t a public facing news outlet. There are journals, bulletins, email lists. This was press released by a comms department.
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Replying to @DanielleFong
I have an MSc in science communication and I used to work in a comms department, I’m 98% sure that’s how it went down. It’s not as egregious as other examples of small/preprint/speculative studies hitting the headlines but it’s part of a concerning pattern.
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Research hits headlines with something like ‘proof of first cases in Wuhan in AUGUST’ or ‘asymptomatic transmission of covid is rare’ and that headline spreads and becomes the story. It’s then walked back or debunked but it’s too late.
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yeah that bullshit is the worst. I think this is very different from those cases though.
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it's not an announcement from WHO, which specifically has the job of informing people of the difference between asymptomatic and presymptomatic it's specifically said that it's the *first* direct *evidence* that *could* infect the brain, the headline is epistemically valid.
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and again *evidence* of first cases in august vs *proof* it's a vast gulf epistemically.
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maybe i'm a hold out for / from an internet that tries to communicate epistemically correct things and or possible things and or jokes and it's basically understood that you have to figure it out. somehow, we have to communicate. not a fan of censorship or self censorship
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It’s not censorship to only release research when its past peer review. That’s how science communication works. If it didn’t, there would be absolute chaos. Papers get knocked back at peer review all the time. Retraction seriously damages public trust.
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I agree with that, but I also think there should be a stratum of preprints. This is specifically not cool, I can't get the paper.
Censorship I'm talking about is algo censorship on social media platforms and google suffered by whistleblowers like @nanogenomic @drericding and I
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