Quite the take...
Oster has a history on bad use of epidemiology, for example for her profitable books about parenting, where she is also a self-declared expert.
See a Prof of epidemiology & paediatrics point out her wrongs here, as one example https://depts.washington.edu/fasdpn/pdfs/astley-oster2013.pdf …
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Oh, this is very bad indeed. It appears that Oster doesn’t know how to appraise empirical research, or even worse, that she cherry picks studies to support her own views.
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Exactly. Also, advocacy and science are not the same thing. We’ve somehow forgotten that when it comes to the schools reopening debate.
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Economists getting into the herd immunity tutoring game like epidemiologists running the Reserve Bank.
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I would still trust the latter more to be successful tbh
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This is exactly what has been mystifying. Opinions of folks clearly without training or understanding of virology, epidemiology or immunology masquerading and being amplified as an alternative version of pop science. Beats logic.
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The people wanting to hear views like Oster’s won’t find an actual expert to say such things. I write this thinking about the healthy 14 yr old who recently ended up in the hospital after contracting the virus at a quinceanara.
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And this is the same magazine that employs the excellent science writers
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Think I disagree in this case, but curious to hear your concrete complaints. Seems basically honest on evidence, & makes a reasonable direct-benefit argument. Only issue I have is neglecting the indirect benefit of keeping up NPIs for kids, but I'd bet that's small.
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Distinct from whether or not I agree with the policy recommendation here, it doesn't seem so poorly supported that it's irrelevant to the discussion.
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