I can’t recommend this enough. takes apart the idea of “absence of evidence is evidence of absence”, and explains: well, sometimes it really is!
This seems to me to be the more pragmatic question.
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Also: when does correlation imply causation, and when does the plural of anecdote equal data?
This requires pragmatic judgment — a difficult thing to do.
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WHO funded review on airborne transmission has just been released as pre print. Problem is that air samples are not a proxy for transmission. It’s only one piece of the evidence puzzle, and one that can only be measured at the right place and right time f1000research.com/articles/10-23