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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Agreed. Ditto mistakes e.g. I thought it was unlikely we'd see increased transmissibility on the scale of B.1.1.7, and wrote as much over the summer. But I've acknowledged my mistake and tried to think about why I felt as confident as I did. (Anchoring on flu again, mostly).
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Hopefully the new interagency modeling unit that hopefully will be created will add some much needed memory/hindsight to predictive modeling and forecasting.
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True. But there have also been people who have been very wrong the other way, esp re Australia, with constant doomsaying.
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I was sceptical of our ability to maintain sufficient community motivation for symptomatic testing in the context of
#ZeroCovid but I was proven wrong, thankfullyhttps://twitter.com/DrPieterPeach/status/1278214193515098112 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Name of credible scientist who said those things and the source?
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Their egos are too bound up with being right.
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For me this is relevant especially due to the Barringtonians. Still, none of our local signatories denounced the declaration. Therefore, it's rather hard to listen to them on other issues as one can not know if the ideology still impacts their comments.
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They should have all-listened to me, and I'm not even an epidemiologist.pic.twitter.com/8iGInrnbzr
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