Subtweet to media, especially science writers. When WHO says "there is no evidence", they don't mean something is false. There is no evidence either way. It could just as well be true. Also, "correlation doesn't imply causation" is wrong and stupid, and doesn't debunk anything.
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Replying to @zeynep
The WHO briefings I've read are actually worse than this. Evidence can take many forms and on some questions one can reason from theory and by analogy with other viruses even without any actual data on this one. But that is completely discounted by the WHO.
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Replying to @WilliamCB @zeynep
The fact is, decisions have to be made. So we have to assemble all the evidence we've got and use it as best we can. What the WHO is doing when it says "there's no evidence" is saying "leave the decisions to us (or at least public health experts)".
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Replying to @WilliamCB @zeynep
All of which means to this cynic that one should not assume that the WHO's comms are crummy through incompetence. It may be a deliberate policy.
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Maybe. Something is definitely not working.
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