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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That makes good sense to me. It does ask a lot of the synthesizing authorities, WHO, CDC, etc. And, as we've seen, given hyper-partisanship, mono channel media, & the role of bellicose nationalism, some well-placed high-level doubt, once seeded, is awfully hard to beat back...
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Synthesis of emerging, incomplete information with an eye towards decision-making is a crucial and greatly under-appreciated skill. Deep domain expertise can even work against it. The best of WHO and CDC excel at just that, and that is—should be—their main and very important job.
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