This is condescending and wrong, Matt. Zeynep is not the intellectual midwife to awkward real experts who had trouble expressing their feelings, but someone who pushed hard against a near-universal consensus at great professional risk. Her name is on the research papers.
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If it wasn’t that recent, one could think it was plausible, that I just had the chance to voice something that they actually already knew. Instead I did my analysis and wrote my piece thinking it might end my career as a public intellectual. It was that against the grain. Anyway.
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That’s fair. And this point shouldn’t take away from what you did, and how you put yourself out there. Yet within a few weeks of your piece, the idea that masks were essential to preventing COVID had become ubiquitous within the community.
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Everyone knew masks were beneficial. The thought that they weren't was the insane invention that happened later. The problem was we thought we were basically arranging deck chairs on the Titanic, and that medical supply shortages was the bigger threat.
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