We need like a 30 year moratorium on Structure. You can teach the postscript, but not the text. Deciding between fomite or aerosol transmission is a textbook case of kuhn's "normal science" and has nothing to do with revolution as he defined it.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1373720638947532800 …
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Replying to @shortorian
If that were the case, we'd have updated most everything, latest by March 2020.
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Replying to @zeynep
In kuhn's scheme, paradigms only shift as part of scientific revolutions, and individuals almost never move from one paradigm to another. People in a paradigm retire or die, they don't change their minds.
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Replying to @shortorian @zeynep
Fomite and aerosol transmission are commensurate ideas in kuhn's language. Scientists have arguments about them and come to mutually intelligible conclusions, even if they disagree. For Kuhn, people subscribing to different paradigms can't do that.
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Replying to @shortorian
The debate on aerosol transmission wasn't really about aerosols vs. fomites, though.
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Replying to @zeynep
But everyone agrees there's a virus that gets transmitted which is associated with a syndrome that needs treatment. The scientists involved have the same worldview. Again, this is in Kuhn's language about paradigms, which even he disavowed as too imprecise to be useful.
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Replying to @shortorian @zeynep
I'm not suggesting there are no important changes happening in science here, I think there are and that you've done excellent reporting on them, I'm only saying that Kuhn's paradigm idea doesn't describe this situation.
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I think it’s Kuhnian in how it is playing out. Sure, it’s not Newton vs. Einstein. But Kuhnian in multiple aspects. I don’t say this with some exact correspondence to every claim.
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Replying to @zeynep
And I responded by saying that determining how a known virus is transmitted corresponds closely to examples kuhn used to describe "normal puzzle-solving," which is what he said scientists do when they share a paradigm that isn't changing.
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