Another article making the rounds complaining about pandemic "epistemic trespassing", unironically quoting a medical expert who has adamantly & baselessly claimed masks would induce false sense of security—to great harm. For "trust the experts" to work, experts need to deliver.
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John M. Barry. Or more lately, Max Brooks. Tho I have seen some laymen wear PPE like it’s God mode.
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True. Else we are seeing more dieticians, emotional health coaches (self-proclaimed *coughs*) monetizing their YouTube accounts telling us about how to cope the pandemic for ^free^ All because the experts are
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Can it just be because the whole issue is simply not that simple and stretches across multiple scientific disciplines? And because we are *still* learning a lot? Just saying. Expert bashing is nice and good for RTs and FAVs but comes in most cases from people on "mount stupid".
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Only partly, the main reason is one field didn’t want to listen to another field that was showing how spread in aerosols was easy. And they knew, as evidenced by trump’s own admission to Bob Woodward.
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We live in an age where the task would be something degrading intended to insult rather than to extract anything helpful
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But there are other successful instances too. The aerosol scientists contributing to the knowledge of transmission routes. For eg you being an compt sc and sociology brought s fresh perspective towards the discussion and tilt scales towards accepting the aerosol and ventilation.
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"the expert community" Maybe stop calling them that there is wide variance of opinion on matters between experts in every field. the idea of consensus is a political one.
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And when you try to engage in a scientifically disciplined conversation you automatically get classified as Trump supporter.
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