One problem is the people telling us to just “follow the science” rarely seem to understand the interaction between things science can and has resolved and the unknowns and trade-offs that cannot be resolved by appeals to “The Science.” They’re often using science as a talisman.https://twitter.com/jflier/status/1345417443909500931 …
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Science deniers will, for example, hone in on one part of one panel of one figure or one line of one table and try to use that to discredit entire scientific consensuses. I've seen antivaxxers do it more times than I can remember.
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Indeed, the entire "CDC whistleblower" conspiracy theory that turned into Andrew Wakefield's and Del Bigtree's antivax propaganda film VAXXED resulted from just such a bit of cherry picking and misrepresentation.
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