Our response to covid has a lot of bad implications for the fight against climate change, a far tougher collective action problem. Among the worst is the exposure of "trust the science" as a kind of secular faith, not a genuine defense of scientific thinking. This took many forms
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my impression was that the failure to acknowledge aerosol transmission was largely institutional delays - but I may have just been following the smarter scientists.
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also of course Zeynep got the calls right and she *is* a sociologist.
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I guess scientists are human too. Hasn’t it been said that science progresses one funeral at a time?
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