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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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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I want to give some credit to the scientific community based on the notion that these ideas were out there in scientists’ mind and that they needed a catalyst to crystallize around, and you helped to provide that.
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Well, thank you for all of it! I'd just like to complement your communication as well, since I found it very helpful in modelling how to communicate it to others. And the critical importance of the sociologic aspects you highlighted have been resoundingly illustrated since.
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