But we *have* had many people asking about prevention of transmission, and we have an obligation to answer that accurately & transparently, as well as provide guidance on what to do/not do after being vaccinated.
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Replying to @tarahaelle @gorskon
I think we are bad at saying “we don’t know” and giving our best simple guess. Instead we say we don’t know and experts debate hypotheticals in the public sphere. I think that is confusing and disheartening to many people. Which often undermines what we do know.
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In fact, the science journalists who are writing articles about this and saying “we don’t know” (like me) *are* providing the additional context & explanation. You’re kinda proving my point: we need science journalists w experience in vaccine reporting to do these articles.
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I do wonder if we need to fragment social media so that scientific discussions aren't misinterpreted, amplified in weird ways, and then propagated as some sort of threat to civil society. I even saw one prominent voice call our discussions a "crime against public health."
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Replying to @jallepap @tarahaelle and
Prominent, yes, but sadly not an expert.
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Replying to @RMCarpiano @jallepap and
She sure thinks she is in a lot of different subfields... or at least that the expertise of actual experts isn’t relevant. It’s maddening.
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Replying to @tarahaelle @jallepap and
From CV scan, no background in public hlth, no acad. pubs articles to my knowledge on public hlth issues, but uses public forum spots to opine broadly & thus gets viewed/legitimated as an expert, which puts her at center of convo. Doubt NYTs quote on profile there ironically. 1/
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Replying to @RMCarpiano @tarahaelle and
2/ Basically, a Silver/Yglesias big follower bandwidth COVID19 opiner w/PhD in some curiously unnamed area on CV/Wikipedia, but other degrees named. Among few cases where "Stay in your lane" arises for me. No issue w/ soc sci/(soc) media issues in pandemic.
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Replying to @RMCarpiano @tarahaelle and
3/3 That's her area, but I see little engagement w/public hlth world/scholarship. RCT op-ed and resulting engagement in debate was odd.
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Replying to @RMCarpiano @jallepap and
Tara Haelle Retweeted Tara Haelle
So I had had enough.https://twitter.com/tarahaelle/status/1351643127149424640 …
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Tara HaelleVerified account @tarahaelleReplying to @zeynep @stgoldst and 4 othersActually, if we’re talking about health and science communication about vaccines, *I* am the expert. I actually do have a peer-reviewed paper on it, I’ve presented at conferences, I’ve given a half dozen keynotes to orgs like AAP, immunization action coalitions, and4 replies 0 retweets 13 likes
Go get her. She’s been annoying the hell out of me of late.
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Replying to @gorskon @RMCarpiano and
It takes *a lot* for me to trot out my CV like that, but don’t tell me you’re the expert and I’m not when it comes to sci comm about vaccines.
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