This is @zeynep speaking to @benthompson last year. It is perhaps the most worrying thing about our current system. How can it be that dissent has been so squashed in the medical community? Has that changed at all?pic.twitter.com/updLidRIbq
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The trade-off is that the reputation of the consortium is tied to getting it right when, say, a majority agree. But perhaps if the message also included a measure of the degree of confidence that could be nuanced.
Yeah, absolutely. I think some of these things can be addressed with moving to a transparency/accountability model that explicitly acknowledges uncertainty. (Not acknowledging it doesn't keep it out of the public sphere—it's not the fifties anymore anyway).
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