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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. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 Feb 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted David Dayen

      Oh, yes. The man who wrote at the *end of February 2020*—when it was clear we would get hit—that worrying about a pandemic was "panic" by people who don't understand probability—and naturally got appointed to head the WHO social science response to COVID. White House next, obvs.https://twitter.com/ddayen/status/1355217464968183810 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      David Dayen @ddayen
      Here's some news: Cass Sunstein is telling people that he's got a White House job coming https://prospect.org/blogs/tap/red-alert-the-return-of-cass-sunstein/ …
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Feb 2021

      How the world works.pic.twitter.com/36UpKOubzC

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 2 Feb 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      To be clear, this is why I care—not the falling up part. Contrarian, clever-sounding but baseless social theories plus false, also baseless & more elite-projection than real Hobbesian views of the public have dominated and harmed our pandemic response.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1356624524960235521 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      Replying to @yvonnezlam
      Honestly wouldn't mind it so much if I didn't have first-hand experience in how absolutely baseless, incorrect nonsense but "clever" sounding social science theories held up better guidance on masks—until December of 2020. (They never gave them up either! Still there!)
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 5 Feb 2021

      I'm really not targeting individuals. No personal issue. But this is how and why things fail—this is WHO's "social science response". People in the social sciences all know the problem with what's going on here but a pandemic isn't enough of an urgency to speak out, I guess.pic.twitter.com/NEwLdjckBT

      7:22 AM - 5 Feb 2021
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        1. Karin van Dijk‏ @sh33p_purple 5 Feb 2021
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          Seems like a typical behaviorist to me. Behaviorism in social sciences has been abandoned long ago.

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          My soul is weary

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