One problem is the people telling us to just “follow the science” rarely seem to understand the interaction between things science can and has resolved and the unknowns and trade-offs that cannot be resolved by appeals to “The Science.” They’re often using science as a talisman.https://twitter.com/jflier/status/1345417443909500931 …
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After months of being accused of being anti-science because I recommended wearing masks back in March, and many futile months trying to emphasize focusing on indoor activities and stop the beach/outdoor shaming. I love this example of "follow the science"!https://twitter.com/musicpsych/status/1345446872790552576?s=20 …
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I never thought I'd personally live through such an intense period of groupthink + consensus shifts (which are not alien concepts at all for sociology!) but I hadn't realized how they'd be accompanied by this deep and immediate "always been at war with Eastasia" amnesia. Amazing.
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We spent months trying to get masks accepted as a scientifically reasonable precaution! (Now seems we can't get it across that not all masks are equal). A whole year trying to get authorities (mostly in Western nations) to emphasize ventilation and indoors as risks! lol folks.
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To emphasize: I am *completely* on the side of science—the enterprise, the method, the miracle of it all. I am in awe of what scientists have done last year. It was an annus mirabilis for science and annus horribilis for humanity. But "follow the science" has become a talisman.
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It's been an incredible year. Scientific achievements of past year are mind-blowing. I don't think it has completely sunk in, because just like anything we get used to, we're immediately taking the successes for granted. Appreciating that without worshiping its platonic shadow...
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If science had only one answer, we wouldn’t need science anymore.
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The existence of ideas on one side of the line are being used to discredit ideas on the other side of the line. When you shit on "follow the science", anti-maskers feel justified in their continued harmful behavior.
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this is spot on. humans generally hate uncertainty, so they don’t like to live in probabilistic zones.
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It's an understandably tempting one to conjure/reach for when you've got a lot people in positions of authority who seem committed to being aggressively anti-science, not just WRT Covid but things like climate/pollution, sexual health, nutrition, etc. But it can be a lazy crutch
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Just as bad as when people say they "believe" in science. It creates the situation of believers and non-believers turning science into a religion of right and wrong views.
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That's kind of a hard one, though - what verb would you use instead of "believe" to convey confidence in settled science? "Faith" doesn't work either, for the same reasons.
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