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.
I would ask you pretty emphatically not to put words in my mouth. How could I argue the “whole scientific community was wrong” when I spent the early pandemic in a country where universal mask wearing *was* the scientific and public health consensus?
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I said pretty clearly what I meant upthread: near universal consensus by US public health authorities, science journalists and commentariat.
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Leaving aside your faux outrage, the point I took from Matt’s claim at the top was that the US medical community writ large did not have an effective way to counter bad advice from public health authorities, who obviously DID have effective ways to communicate (bad advice.)
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