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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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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It's rare that so much international attention is so focused on a single issue for so long. Perhaps that just makes the phenomena more obvious.
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Being a major target of aggressive trolls can change how someone experienced that period, even if there was definitely institutional failure and counting on an underequipped public to properly understand "there's no evidence" sometimes means "we don't have the slightest clue."
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19 days until we
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How old are you? Google “Jeffrey Goldberg groupthink Iraq War”.
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Thanks for tackling this. I remember being embarrassed about wearing a mask in March because of the articles that said “masks don’t protect you.” Now we pretend those articles weren’t written.
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But they really were written.
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