Dunno if Scott missed the irony in this line, or he's being even dryer than usual. "We couldn’t do more, because it would have been unethical to deliberately expose face-mask-less people to disease."https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/04/14/a-failure-but-not-of-prediction/ …
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I would have expected "it would have been unethical to deliberately expose face-mask-wearing people to disease" but maybe I'm not on enough layers of irony
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You remember the study where the heart medication during surgery was so helpful it was considered unethical to deny it to the control group? It took years for adoption afterwards, because there was no RCT.
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