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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Similarly, rejecting source control with masks because there’s no RCT despite lab work and precautionary principle. (Also you would have to do a cluster randomized trial not a clinical trial because source control is an ecological variable)
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Surge in summer=“This must not be seasonal”. Rather than you can have a surge out of season with a naïve population. You’ll still likely get hit badly in winter since it’s a coronavirus.
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Yeah, I've been trying to figure out a less conflictual language for talking about these biases that different kinds of experts have. Like, it seemed really hard to convince some established (smart, knowledgeable) virologists that VoCs with clusters of RBD muts mattered...why?
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That... happened?
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I find this language weird. As scientists you can speculate, hypothesize, guess, postulate especially if invited to. I mean or else PhD defences would become really boring.
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these are the inevitable consequences of a generation for whom the sum total of their scientific education reduces to "correlation isnt causation" and "the plural of anecdote isnt data."
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