The reason public health people are furious with Feigl-Ding is that such groundless, hand-waving paranoia continually coming from someone coded as an "expert" is sufficient to take people's fear (natural and normal) and ferment it into panic. (1/
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So instead of planning interventions and dealing with the many nuanced dimensions of international outbreak response centering around a country the U.S. is in an ongoing trade war with, professionals have to spend time talking politicians out of doing human rights violations. (8/
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If you read that article, panic as a common first response to fear/crisis is pretty rare. People are generally rational, generous, and helpful in crises. You only consistently see deviation from that when the circumstances for panic are present. (9/
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And panic is really damn hard to put back into the bottle once it's been unleashed, to be honest. So people are very frustrated with EFD, and publicly refuting his asinine comments, *because* they know he's actively making people unsafe with his rhetoric. (10/
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It’s also pretty clear at this point that the primary benefit of this for him is attention. He’s terrifying people and actively undermining the public health community’s response...for attention. As I’ve said before, public health is a *deeply* collaborative field. (11/
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So it’s fair, normal, and genuinely part of public health professionals’ roles to tell EFD to get his shit straight and stop spreading panic and misinformation. Don’t tone police people over that; they’re doing their jobs. (12/12)
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Quick PS: EFD has repeatedly touted his Harvard affiliation to boost the credibility of his statements. *Actual* infectious disease epidemiology professors at Harvard School of Public Health have clarified his position & soundly rejected his statements. https://twitter.com/mlipsitch/status/1223387153645719552?s=21 …https://twitter.com/mlipsitch/status/1223387153645719552 …
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Another person who’s been abusing their perceived credibility is Laurie Garrett. She’s an established science journalist who’s been flagrantly and carelessly sowing panic since this began. https://twitter.com/isabelott/status/1221469770266169345?s=21 …https://twitter.com/isabelott/status/1221469770266169345 …
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