There is a lot of preprints, rushed articles, new findings and questions. Everyone's getting stuff wrong: that's the nature of such a fast-moving evolving moment. But the careful experts are talking things through best they can, not rushing to 




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I'm not begrudging anyone getting stuff wrong. My co-authors have a correction of math to an annals paper; the JAMA findings were presented weirdly. Life. But he has no brakes, no controls nor real expertise. TONS OF GOOD FOLKS ARE ALREADY ON TWITTER. Let's find and retweet them.
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Not a minor issue, we had the NJ governor "consult" with him. He may mean well. I have no idea. But he's just not stopping and looking around; he's rushing to tweet in the most sensationalist way possible and is often wrong. Dangerous combination because of veneer of credibility.
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Yes, lots of errors by media, too. Similar wrong incentives/lack of expertise/not waiting. Hopefully governor of NJ is not consulting with the Washington Post. Really need to get reporters with more expertise/urge waiting/check around/chill on headlines.https://twitter.com/BaldingsWorld/status/1253337947027288074 …
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I'll just put this here. I'm not being mean to one person; it's the veneer of credibility with reasonable information some of the time and absolute nonsense some of the time that's so dangerous. Very hard to separate the two for regular people.https://www.chronicle.com/article/This-Harvard-Epidemiologist-Is/248557 …
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reporting doesnt help?
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he doesn't "report". He blasts things out that he doesn't understand, yet presents himself as an expert in order to get on CNN.
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For one thing, he conflates correlation with causation. You drink water, you die (correlation). You go on ventilator w/covid19, you die (correlation). Causation: some factor(s) causes people who are sick with covid19 to die regardless of measures taken.
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No, that's not the issue at all here.
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