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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. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle 18 Jan 2021

      14/18 Also 95% effectiveness does *not* “understate” the effectiveness. In reality, real-life effectiveness is often lower than efficacy (which @DLeonhardt would have known if he’d read my @AHCJ piece to journalists on the nuances of vaccine effectiveness)https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2020/10/know-the-nuances-of-vaccine-efficacy-when-covering-covid-19-vaccine-trials/ …

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    2. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle 18 Jan 2021

      15/18 Here’s what we know abt Covid vaccines: they’re very safe. They have some anaphylactic reactions that have been well managed & caused no deaths. They’ve been extremely effective in clinical trials. We expect the same in real life. We don’t know if they prevent transmission.

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    3. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle 18 Jan 2021

      16/18 The final italicized paragraphs in Leonhardt’s piece are pretty good messaging. And they ARE what public health experts are conveying. But they’re doing it smartly, relying on research about vaccine hesitancy & using evidence-based communication to build public trust.pic.twitter.com/2YshofKafS

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    4. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle 18 Jan 2021

      17/18 @DLeonhardt, on the other hand, is undermining public health by framing his “trust how great the vaccine is” message in the context of claiming that experts aren’t being honest with the public. I genuinely don’t know a better way to give anti-vaccine advocacy oxygen.

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    5. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle 18 Jan 2021

      18/fin I’ll have a blog post at AHCJ coming soon on this bc I’m so frustrated w vaccine hot takes from journalists who lack experience & knowledge abt vaccine reporting. The stakes are high for irresponsible, ignorant reporting: harming public health.https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2019/03/writing-about-vaccine-hesitancy-theres-a-study-for-that/ …

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    6. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle 18 Jan 2021

      adding 19/ I should add: the quotes from @DrPaulOffit @ashishkjha @PeterHotez & @AaronRichterman are great. All are spot on & cld have been well used in a thoughtful article about how we're underselling the vaccine—in the hands of a reporter who understands the vaccine landscape.

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Jan 2021
      Replying to @tarahaelle @DrPaulOffit and

      In reality, as it often is the case, it took someone outside the wagon circling mindset to write the very overdue article! This has been a problem since December and everytime I and others raised it, we got wagon-circling. With this mindset, we won’t learn anything. Tragic, tbh.

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    8. Stephen Goldstein‏ @stgoldst 19 Jan 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @tarahaelle and

      Is it remotely conceivable that the people who disagree with you might be right or have any valid points? Or is it written in stone that you're right and the "wagon circlers" are wrong?

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    9. Stephen Goldstein‏ @stgoldst 19 Jan 2021
      Replying to @stgoldst @zeynep and

      I ask because it's difficult to think of an instance in which you haven't been absolutely certain you were right and immunologists/virologists/epidemiologists were wrong and some might view that as a red flag as to the soundness of your arguments.

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    10. Stephen Goldstein‏ @stgoldst 19 Jan 2021
      Replying to @stgoldst @zeynep and

      Experts of course can be wrong and should admit when we/they are. But if your through-line is that they're *always* wrong I think you are just undermining science more than anyone frankly and it comes across as very prior-driven rather than data-driven.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Jan 2021
      Replying to @stgoldst @tarahaelle and

      Who said they're always wrong? Plus, on things not in my direct field, I am obviously super duper cautious and thus my track record. But here we're talking about something directly in my field here, public sphere an communication. If we are deferring to expertise, I'm the expert.

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        2. Stephen Goldstein‏ @stgoldst 19 Jan 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @tarahaelle and

          The question of what we do and don’t know about vaccine efficacy against transmission is a matter of immunology and virology and you have accused experts of *deliberately* withholding scientific information from the public on this.

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        3. Stephen Goldstein‏ @stgoldst 19 Jan 2021
          Replying to @stgoldst @zeynep and

          Incredibly damaging attacks on scientific matters. I’ll be honest. It’s disheartening to see from a fellow academic and leads experts to consider simply disengaging from public outreach at all.

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        2. Dr. Angela Rasmussen‏Verified account @angie_rasmussen 19 Jan 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @stgoldst and

          If we are talking about reporting on vaccines and how it contributes to vaccine hesitancy, as well as how journalists should responsibly cover this topic, I'd say that @tarahaelle is the expert here (as evidenced by this excellent thread).

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        3. Zoë McLaren, PhD‏ @ZoeMcLaren 19 Jan 2021
          Replying to @angie_rasmussen @zeynep and

          Vaccine hesitancy is a whole other level of science communication because there is so much trust involved. If you get it wrong and lose trust, you'll be trying to make it up for a long time.

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        2. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle 19 Jan 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @stgoldst and

          Actually, if we’re talking about health and science communication about vaccines, *I* am the expert. I actually do have a peer-reviewed paper on it, I’ve presented at conferences, I’ve given a half dozen keynotes to orgs like AAP, immunization action coalitions, and

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        3. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle 19 Jan 2021
          Replying to @tarahaelle @zeynep and

          ...an international audience that incl the former head of the US vaccine office. I’ve given Grand Rounds on it, I’ve written a chapter on vaccines in 1 book, I’ve written another book entirely on vaccines, & I’ve given presentations on vaccine communication to peers for 8 years.

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        1. David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 19 Jan 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @stgoldst and

          Except I’m not so sure that you are “super duper cautious.”

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