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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"Listen to scientists". Doesn't work that well either, because give me a question and I'll find you a scientist with the right credential who disagrees with most. Often they are cranks who should have retired long time ago. Sometimes they have a point. How to tell them apart?
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As a talisman though, it isn't just ineffective, it's counterproductive. How is an ordinary person supposed to navigate this? That's why CDC, WHO etc have to be stellar; we need the synthesizing authorities who can navigate the thicket on our behalf & fight for earning out trust.
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science is first to admit it doesn’t have all the answers.
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Right: there’s no escaping value judgments, and politics. But there’s a difference between “there’s no reason to think seniors in nursing homes are at elevated risk” and “we don’t really care if seniors in nursing homes die by the hundreds of thousands.”
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A lot of deliberate (though vile) value judgments are being cloaked in science denialism, just as a lot to overbearing hectoring cloaks itself as “the science.”
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Science is fundamentally based on evidence and rigorous critical thinking. It is a process, a method for justifying belief. There is always uncertainty because all beliefs are subject to falsification. People don’t understand this is a strength and it should *inform* policy.
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All pandemic responses as experiments. Scientists may be called upon to help design and study the responses for effectiveness, but the experiment has its own ecology that cannot be framed or studied as a scientific experiment.
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Science + philosophy is a part of the solution
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