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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.  🔬Samantha Yammine, PhD‏Verified account @heysciencesam 28 Oct 2020

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      This entire thing is phenomenal, and @zeynep is a true icon. My favourite part was about how silo’ed our thinking can become in research such that, “everybody’s looking for the keys within their own particular light.” https://twitter.com/JuliaLMarcus/status/1321553837933690881 …

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Oct 2020
      Replying to @heysciencesam

      Thank you! It's something I've been thinking about a lot, how do we encourage integrative thought? The number of very smart and evidence-oriented health professionals who just will not let go of false sense of security as a huge threat, for example?

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        1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Oct 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @heysciencesam

          (I mean, that's a bit like if I insistent that antibiotics would work for viruses because... personal reasons? It's so pervasive, though. We could not get the WHO infectious disease committee on masks to drop it. Helped delay mask guidance by half a year, maybe. So many lives...)

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        2. Emily Deans MD  ☃️‏Verified account @evolutionarypsy 29 Oct 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @heysciencesam

          This is a very good question! And false sense of security from something like masks (psychologically more likely to distance people imo) compared to false negative testing (more likely to make people act carelessly so we need to educate)

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Oct 2020
          Replying to @evolutionarypsy @heysciencesam

          With masks, from the beginning, yes, the assumption should have been it would *increase* other measures (solidarity, signaling and stigma...). With false negative testing, I think it is indeed a threat, and like washing hands incorrectly, would need further education/guidelines.

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        1. Thomas C. Ricketts‏ @ThomasCRicketts 29 Oct 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @heysciencesam

          Yes. You are doing great work. On the Public health side there is some of the same “blind faith” challenge and we need to promote not just critical thinking, but critical choosing. Just finished our sessions on “Bullshit”...

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        1.  🔬Samantha Yammine, PhD‏Verified account @heysciencesam 29 Oct 2020
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          something else you said in the article may be part of the answer: willingness to admit being wrong. Our academic culture is so obsessed with the notion of experts we don’t display (nor practise) the true spirit of research: debate & an infinite search for reasons why we’re wrong.

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