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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 9 Apr 2020

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      Once again, this is not only without evidence, decades of literature and research exactly on this ("risk compensation" theories for safety devices, seat-belts, helmets etc.) finds the opposite at the population level. It's a clever sounding argument without empirical support. https://twitter.com/nalepis/status/1248281035726520322 …

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Apr 2020

      Many people made this argument in papers and articles. It's a way to tell apart people who know the empirical literature vs people who have their mind up and are looking for excuses—or can't admit they were wrong. By all means, let's keep an eye on this! But no reason to assume.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Apr 2020

      Can an intervention that increases safety decrease total safety by increasing risk-taking? Clever idea, and people have suggested this forever for, well, every safety device, basically. Can you find individual examples? Sure. But at the population level it just doesn't work.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Apr 2020

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      This is a myth. As far as I can tell, people are misunderstanding one study that showed that surgical masks were better for health care workers than cloth masks (duh). I'd blame "Mr. Pete" except so many articles by journalists also made that mistake.https://twitter.com/Mr_Pete/status/1248340796673327104 …

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      1/Have you seen the science (published journal articles) that suggest: a) Without proper training, masks DO make it worse, not better. b) There's a LOT less virus in a cough than most can imagine. One test analyzed every droplet from coughs. The WORST virus: 2 droplets per cough!
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        1. Mr Pete‏ @Mr_Pete 9 Apr 2020
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          If you think it's a myth... * Why must HCP's have careful training, and multiple-time-per-day checking of PPE fit. * Why do non-N95 masks have so much blow-by There's quite a few studies. I need to pull a few up anyway...

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