Important to remember that science INFORMS and GUIDES policy, but that ultimately most political decisions are a judgement call
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Many, many have missed this point.
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And risk attitudes.
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And preformed ideas and expectations
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In other words, science can tell us how to build an atomic bomb, but not whether we should use it.
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Caveat should be can *sometimes* tell us the costs and benefits. Nobody can, for example, predict the long term costs of endemic covid. I think failure to recognise what is science and what is judgement (moral, political, intuition etc.) has been disastrous in this pandemic.
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I would say less than 5% of the 200 covid scientists I follow on Twitter could objectively provide costs and benefits about their domain.
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