This post inadvertently but usefully helps explain the current pandemic of amateur epidemiology. One huge vector of this is economists (defined broadly), a profession whose members are socialized to think they are smarter than everyone else.https://twitter.com/tylercowen/status/1249303883689660418 …
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As opposed to, say... journalists who do drive-by takes on any of a million topics and assume that they are fully qualified to explain it to the unwashed masses as long as they quote a few cherry-picked sources that conveniently confirm all of their priors.
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Well...yeah
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Hear hear! And when will biology finally take responsibility for phrenology? Waiting to hear from you so-called scientists!
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Professor Epstein literally said to us 1L year that “lawyers can fake being economists better than economists can fake being lawyers”
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