Dear journalists and
-tweeters, please don't write definitive sounding stuff from single studies—especially when the claim is bold—without waiting for the scientific community to react and also without noting limitations the *authors* point out themselves. It's been ten months!https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1333647449987063809 …
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There's been *so much* damage from media outlets rushing to publish definitive sounding articles with bold headlines from what are kinda-maybe-let's see articles or papers with issues that soon get interpreted better—and then all the sensationalist twitter accounts amplifying it.
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It's been ten months. Just stop please. The bolder the claim, the more time, context and evaluation is necessary. People are quick to spot other kinds of misinformation problems *over there* but this one is widespread *over here* among people who believe they are not misinformed.
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Thank you Zeynep! I saw this WSJ article getting shared around uncritically in a number of circles. CDC stamp + WSJ gives this unjustified authority (relative to the data in the manuscript).
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Thank *you* for jumping in! Yes, on the one hand, first-known case is in China is Nov. 19 so okay-maybe-let's-see but the authors themselves note limitations *plus* so many single-studies with bold claims turn out not to be so... Tragic that media still does it like this.
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