What I don't understand. The issue isn't whether a "Nate Silver" [insert pundit you like/don't like] opines or not. The key difference is that a few gatekeepers absolutely DO NOT control how this plays out anymore. That's the context to consider. Why aren't we focusing on that?https://twitter.com/celinegounder/status/1382299663269761024 …
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Serious? Without claiming this person is right, or that I agree, how about a public health professor at Johns Hopkins University with an MD and an MPH and who teaches public health policy? Examples are numerous and "expert" opinion is all over the place. https://twitter.com/GarrSigmund/status/1382378733248581634 …pic.twitter.com/7zKd8j30a2
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First, I'm "ranting" about my actual area of expertise for once!
By your logic, you should only listen to me on this. Two, what I think about the surgeon general is irrelevant. Three, what did you think about the previous surgeon general and his opinions?https://twitter.com/grtamericanovel/status/1382370181838671874 …This Tweet is unavailable.Show this thread -
Congratulations, you have just become a Twitter pundit and proven my point: if we are supposed to pick and choose which surgeon general to trust, "stop ranting and listen to the surgeon general" does not solve the problem I'm trying to explain. https://twitter.com/grtamericanovel/status/1382383598221856771 …
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*takes a risk to write outside her core field for a year because it's a global crisis* *tries for once to actually comment on her core field, where she has book, articles, all the classic credentials*

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To conclude the day, ACIP meeting was interesting and it included assertions from experts ranging from one calling the pause "devastating" to others saying restarting now would be "unacceptable". These are necessarily "no single right answer" questions.https://twitter.com/pickettjessica/status/1382445712122724359 …
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So, simultaneously, we have: a new public sphere which our institutions weren't designed for; fairly robust intra-expert disagreement on the right answer to many key questions (unsurprising given the moment); and lots of decisions under uncertainty. *That's* the challenge.
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Are you saying that after not beingle to trust our elites, now we can not trust the experts and the scientists? What, we now have to form our opinions based on the incomplete and contradictory information that changes all the time? Outrageous What kind of world we are living in
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We desperately need good mechanisms for participatory informed meaning-making. Theoretically we have them (here, fb, reddit), but obviously we don't. The glomming onto competing "expert" avatars for the pandemic is an outgrowth of how technocracy misshapes politics generally.
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