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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Aug 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted David Spiegelhalter

      Good parsing of headlines/stats. I'm the child of an alcoholic, so all the feels about how this drug gets to be legal while millions do time for small amounts of pot but... despite the recent headlines, little evidence that occasional drinkers are at some worrisome health risk.https://twitter.com/d_spiegel/status/1032878415450386433 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      David Spiegelhalter @d_spiegel
      ‘no safe level of alcohol’, but Lancet study means 25,000 light drinkers need annual equivalent of 400,000 bottles of gin for one serious health problem among them each year https://medium.com/wintoncentre/the-risks-of-alcohol-again-2ae8cb006a4a …
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Aug 2018

      Common pattern. There is an X which has catastrophic outcomes for some segment. But the harms from X don't nicely fit into a linear dose-response narrative. So you are left with the trade-off discussion: freedom/benefit of majority/most vs those at risk. But that's uncomfortable.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Aug 2018

      So the narrative oscillates between panics/prohibition and hands off my X. You see this in opioid discussions too: it is of obvious huge benefit to chronic pain patients who would be gravely harmed by denial and it also facilitates catastrophic harm to those who abuse/misuse it.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Aug 2018

      It would be so much better if more people, journalists especially, got in the weeds of what the findings/stats actually mean, and that we had the real discussion: how do you preserve benefits/freedom while protecting those at risk of harm? Topic after topic falls into this trap.

      7:47 AM - 25 Aug 2018
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        1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Aug 2018

          Alcohol causes damage/hurt around the world and competes with tobacco in harm; and little doubt it is also a cancer risk. On the other hand, the occasional drinkers of milder forms don't seem to be facing a huge risk. That's not a neat a story, and not a good headline! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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        1. Lisa Diedrich‏ @lldiedrich 25 Aug 2018
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          One problem is that a certain moralism seems to always frame media discussions of drug use.

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        1. Alfie‏ @WndlB 25 Aug 2018
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          Can we just put you in the @smithsonian or something, with a title of Prophet or something?

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