It would be much easier to take certain scientists seriously when it comes to COVID-19 if they had some honesty about their disastrously wrong predictions over the last 12 months
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But it's really hard to listen to people who confidently predicted that the pandemic would be over by June 2020, or that virtually no one would die, talk about what we should be doing now without ever addressing their own failures
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I remember asking you and a couple of others questions at the beginning and you were very honest in saying we don't know yet.
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I always try to be honest about knowledge, but I did do a couple of pretty silly tweets
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I had followed you in late 2019 for reasons lost to time, and found your early 2020 opinions very reassuring, so thanks for nothing
but seriously, thank you for being one of relatively few public experts transparently changing your mind in light of new evidenceThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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One difference is that you’re very evidence-focused. Not to mention insightful and self-reflective.
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Most of the people (scientists) that got it wrong we’re not in the field. They were not ID docs, epidemiologists, virologist, molecular biologists. They were gifted scientists in their own right but in other fields, M.Levitt (structural biologist), S. Atlas (neuroradiologist)
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