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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. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Dec 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Trevor Bedford

      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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      Trevor BedfordVerified account @trvrb
      The authors highlight the study's limitation due to "potential cross reactivity with human common coronavirus infection" in the paper's discussion, but it unfortunately didn't make it into the @WSJ story (https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-likely-in-u-s-in-mid-december-2019-cdc-scientists-report-11606782449 …). 9/10
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Dec 2020

      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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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Dec 2020

      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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    4. Arguably Wrong‏ @arguablywrong 1 Dec 2020
      Replying to @zeynep

      The counterpoint to this is that decisive action on incomplete information is a necessary part of a fast-moving crisis. I'm tired of seeing scientists asking for 95% certainty instead of 60% to make a recommendation, waiting 6 months, and then being too late to do any good.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Dec 2020
      Replying to @arguablywrong

      Agreed. But there's a way to do that without this. The opposite of "where is the perfect RCT if it's missing let's not take sensible steps with a lot of evidence" isn't pedal-to-the-metal reporting or tweeting. If anything, the latter hurts attempts to correct the former.

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