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Replying to @Pinboard
We specifically address this in the first episode. This isn't a public health podcast; it's a podcast about how the virus affects the world and how culture and politics drive the responses.
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Replying to @BeijingPalmer
Physics Today can argue with equal correctness that the UN is a large, bound collection of elementary particles, and so diplomacy is within their purview.
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Replying to @Pinboard @BeijingPalmer
This isn't fair. Foreign policy aspects of pandemics are very much within the purview of a foreign policy magazine. The problem is when physicists try to cover, say, culture from their understanding of, say, particle physics. Pandemics aren't some pure medical events!
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Your criticism is correct to crude reductionism (everything is particles, let me explain the UN to you based on that) not to explaining very much the right level of problem with the right level of conceptual tools.
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It's alright, Pinboard and I enjoy lightly poking each other online.
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Replying to @BeijingPalmer @Pinboard
I'm not blindly defending you! He's coming for sociology next.
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Broad, institutional forces compel me to do it
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