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Did you write this suggesting scientists are being dishonest and empowering charlatans or not?pic.twitter.com/4TlQLp7AAi
If you read this quote in the context of the op-ed from which it was taken, it was not necessarily directed at scientists, but at the conflicting messaging at the outset of this whole thing. At this point Pence had been in charge of all coronavirus messaging for nearly a month.
Well if it’s presented in a misleading context that’s unfortunate but in combination with at least one provably false statement about vaccines would seem to cut against this being a beneficial article!
Look, this is a common response I get. I've been seeing this since December. People are being led to believe that we already know they do NOT reduce transmission. And this has become an antivaxxer talking point (why bother, it was bait and switch etc)pic.twitter.com/USp8rNZaMF
Somehow intentions to get vaccinated have gone up since the vaccines were authorized is my understanding?
As I said (politely repeating myself) I don’t doubt there’s been some misfiring but I see a lot of messaging of exactly the sort you’re saying we should do but claim is absent. And intended vaccine uptake is rising.
I don’t see a lot of evidence (that tweet aside) that the crisis you’re alleging actually exists although I do think you’re working towards willing it into being. Amplifying the worst elements of messaging rather than the best etc
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Hank Green
If I thought it was one tweet or, say, rare, yep, I wouldn't bother and you'd be right. It kept getting worse! And noticing how such dynamics work in the public sphere is exactly what I do know and worry about. I'm hardly the only one to notice.https://twitter.com/hankgreen/status/1341165998674567169 …
zeynep tufekci added,
As I said, I take your points and will reflect on how I frame vaccine messaging. I regret that you’re not interested in the impact your framing has on people in other fields trying to help the public understand the vaccines, and the pandemic overall.
We can all probably do better, but not all of us want to.
I think you overemphasize my impact. My particular constituency—and me sometimes— is perhaps frustrated, even mad at some institutions and maybe even some individual experts, but very, very much wants them to survive and be stronger.
Nobody is going from say, my articles, to not getting vaccinated because I criticized messaging or even was very, very frustrated with some WHO committees. The problem with messaging NYT article identifies though is pretty broad, and happens without wanting to harm. +
The individual incentives (media/attention, experts/personality) & the academic tendency (limitations sections, null-hypothesis training) is to emphasize the unknown, the downside. The problem isn't any single one is wrong but the collective consequence tilts in a particular way.
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