its remarkable how frequently garret gets shit wrong even by the low standards of science journalismhttps://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1359225865939406857 …
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Replying to @halvorz
I muted her and EFD back in the days of snakes and HIV inserts. They at least don't have some weird committed ideology like the GBD folks but...very low signal:noise
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Same muting strategy. Some apocalyptic tweets from people, including this pair (and, ahem, a former CDC director (and head of IHME)) I think say more about their own outlook on life than they do about the science or data.
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But how are people not reading all the papers supposed to navigate this? Sources look legit enough. I have friends ready to jump off the ledge because they think this will never end because "vaccines don't prevent transmission" or "variants have made them six-fold less effective"
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idk I'm a fairly non-confrontational person but it might help if scientists and journalists were more willing to call bullshit on this stuff (like you are), even if the bullshitter is a Big Name
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She is a strange case because I remember her being pretty good and reliable during the 2014 Ebola outbreak. Bizarre turnaround this time. But yeah, people have been calling her on it routinely but it hasn't made an impact.
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There's no doubt she must have been great at something at some point. Maybe still would be if she could report from the field? Rather than trying to report findings/science side? That's where I've noticed the pattern. And again, it's blatant enough that I notice it all the time.
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Yes, I think this is exactly it. It's all just hot takes now. And not only is the spin/hype bad, the facts are often just flat-out wrong.
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I know people get mad at me all the time, too, but I do read every paper out there and definitely do my best to pay a lot of attention to disagreement. I'm obviously interested on the policy/guidance side so I do my best to be on solid ground to be able to navigate that space.
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Policy/trade-offs will always has disagreement, but I think it's not surprising that there's some disagreement almost on every aspect of the findings, side, too. But "flat-out wrong" is distinguishable from experts disagree or policy trade-offs are not agreed upon. Anyway...
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Grappling with policy tradeoffs entails engaging with experts on different fronts. But she's had a reputation for being a prima donna since at least 2005; my guess is that as a result she inadvertently siloed herself off & her takes became less tethered to reality as a result.
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