This is really important. Stuff getting publicized *without a paper* and without sufficient time for many scientists to look at, digest, comment and contextualize can lead to terrible outcomes—needlessly scaring people. We saw that happen with widely misreported studies before.https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1364769339434409984 …
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This, too. The preprint needs to be online *before* the high-profile story goes public so that the scientific community has a chance to digest/respond. It's not a long process—people respond quickly. The consequences otherwise are real—and not healthy.https://twitter.com/LauringLab/status/1364915391152205824 …
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Otherwise, story goes out with too few people who see paper. Those few may be excellent, but nobody is infallible. A few is not enough. We've seen this happen. Not enough time to comment->few experts say something->big story->oops there was an issue->no way to undo public impact.
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It's a pandemic & peer review has been shortened or even being skipped. That's fine if done responsibly. There's a robust & real preprint & post-peer review process going on. It's great, actually. But huge finding to big news story with no chance to digest/respond? That's not it.
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Here's a NYC public health official pleading against "pathogen porn"—big media story gets published without letting the scientific community have even one day to digest/respond to a preprint. Happened too many times throughout last year to great harm.https://twitter.com/DrJayVarma/status/1364895908895354882 …
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there has to be a line somewhere. No figures and still has track changes seems clearly on the wrong side of that line to me. Really hard to evaluate a paper with no figures.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the production of this miasmic fear has negatively affected our capacity to have a meaningful conversation about school re-opening. Just a thought. And since it's deep in your mentions, I won't get pilloried.
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But meaningful deliberative engagement with each other about some policy question requires the parties involved not feeling like the sky is about to fall any second. I mean this is totally obvious, but it is something that the NYT does not seriously consider.
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There's a potential pincer effect between hyper-informed folks who would get very freaked out over variant-of-the-week stuff and COVID deniers/trad anti-vax cohorts who are entrenched in social media. I worry about the effect on vaccination rates & NPI adherence.
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What’s the hurry? Seriously???
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I see you bring this up often lately but isn't this the 'second order impact' analysis that you often dislike? Doesn't make sense to not talk about variants cause someone might get overly worried.
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We can talk about them the next day, after the scientific community had a chance to see the paper and digest and respond to the news. I'm not saying ignore it at all. Give it a day! The online scientific community response is really, really fast these days.
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