And to help people think through what the situation will be for parents and kids in the summer, when the Biden Administration suggests adults will all have vaccine access. I had hoped the framing of thinking about child versus adult risks and vaccinations would help (2/n)
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In the article, I talk about the risks of hospitalization and death for children, and then say explicitly "Yes, kids are protected from serious illness, just like their vaccinated grandparents, but they are not as protected from contracting the virus at all." (3/n)
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I go on to talk about the role of high adult vaccination rates in the summer in driving lower case rates and making things safer for children. Most of this nuance was lost in the headline. (4/n)
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I know I have a platform and the responsibility to use it carefully. I stand behind the analysis in this article, but I regret the way it has come across. (n/n)
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Replying to @ProfEmilyOster
it came across just fine. people will go nuts on you no matter what you write, because they hate you for some insane reason. ignore them
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Replying to @LucreSnooker @ProfEmilyOster
Maybe they hate her because of reckless articles that are deeply outside her areas of expertise and which are dangerously misleading?
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Replying to @TArchiving @ProfEmilyOster
i would count that as an insane reason. you don't need a PhD in insert-your-favorite-field-here to understand this kind of medical research. humility is a good thing, and she has it, but humility is not the same thing as "just shut up and don't even try to understand things"
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Replying to @gorskon @TArchiving and
yes, they do. unfortunately there’s no alternative. it’s not actually possible to do what The Experts say is best because they are individuals who often disagree or have no special ability to make judgment calls about trade-offs
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Replying to @LucreSnooker @gorskon and
I’m not sure you appreciate how you are using the specter of anti-vaxxers to create a fully general argument against independent thought. you wanna bite that bullet?
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Oh, I appreciate it. It was *completely* intentional. That's *exactly* what I was doing. Antivaxxers are not the only ones who think they can learn enough about a complex scientific field such that they think their pontifications on it are as valid as those of experts.
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Replying to @gorskon @LucreSnooker and
I often intentionally use the example of antivaxxers in order to shock people into about what they are doing when they should be taken seriously making pronouncements far outside their field of expertise.
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Replying to @gorskon @LucreSnooker and
It's good to see that I made I was doing sufficiently obvious that you picked up on it. Again, don't be like antivaxxers. Don't think that your amateur knowledge and learning are sufficient to be able to dismiss current scientific understanding.
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