I recall you at the time buying up masks for personal use while your employer published explainers deprecating their use as baseless myth that would do more harm than good. She fought like a lion and did the work, so please don't mischaracterize it as "great popularizer"
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I think Zeynep is amazing but I think it’s a bad idea to tar the whole medical community with “there was near-universal consensus”. I think many doctors disagreed with the public-health authorities but didn’t have a way to say it.
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I should specify that I’m referring to the public health authorities in the United States and our public intellectuals, not the medical system writ large, let alone the many people in East Asia who looked at this policy with incredulity
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I think Matt’s claim here is pretty valid: that the science community didn’t know how to muster a general discussion about how they didn’t agree with this advice being given by people in positions of authority, and Zeynep did.
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Maybe I’m being unfair to her. I don’t know. But I’d like to believe this author list bears that out.pic.twitter.com/hi8jj9EHwS
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I think that’s a heavily gendered claim, to be honest, and mischaracterizes the heavy lifting involved as some kind of coaching and team building exercise.
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Oh go stick it in your ear. Zeynep is brilliant, but there’s nothing wrong with pointing out the incredible value of being able to communicate and marshal people who wouldn’t be able to communicate. It doesn’t implicitly deprive her a unique scientific credit.
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I wish there were a hundred more people with her skill set.
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Oh I get it now. The ability to do science communication effectively (as well as being able to do science) is being interpreted as a gendered insult. Because obviously science communication is a second-rate “soft skill”.
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No, it’s the fact that science communication is not what she did in this situation; she did something considerably harder. It’s that dilution that irked me in Matt’s compliment and struck me as condescending
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I’ve been known to communicate a little bit of the old science myself, so I find the accusation that I don’t actually value it puzzling, unless it’s just a rhetorical arm bar in our tweetfight
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I don’t know, because I’m trying to figure out where “gendered” entered the chat.
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Upstream, in the insinuation in the original tweet that Zeynep has been some idea doula for the inarticulate medical experts right on the substance but bad at people skills and expository writing
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