In a pandemic, public health scientists have a duty to communicate with everyone, and to accept media invitations from left and right, friendly and hostile, etc. If not, they are hacks. 1/2
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In a pandemic, journalists have a duty to engage with a diversity of public health scientists, and to invite those for and against lockdowns, for and against focused protection, for and against vaccine mandates, etc. If not, they are hacks. 2/2
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Public health professional has a duty to follow the science and admit when they are wrong. (read, Your friends in the GBD) etc, if not, they are hack 3/3
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"follow the science " as if it was a monolithic entity with no dissent and no ambiguity/ highly complex matters with arrays of different options/solutions. There are different ways/paths to solve certain problems
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Seems like they have no problem picking out both sides of the argument when it comes to military conflict if they don’t agree with it.
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Completely agree. That's just not the way the memetics work, though. And that's why we're in this hole.https://empathy.guru/2021/02/27/the-predictable-memetic-collapse-of-contemporary-journalism/ …
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That is like saying good a math school should have people that teach 2+2=5. There is no need to have people that are incorrect. Especially in a time of crisis.
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Absolutly agree
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How sad it is that the fair and balanced ethic in journalism died years ago. We need it back now more than ever.
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