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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The "listen to experts/science" crowd needs to see the problem: well-credentialed experts IN YOUR FIELD have confident, contradictory assertions all over the place. So it turns into "which experts" which turns into "ones I like"—not really a manageable process for ordinary folks.
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We turn to health authorities to try to manage this—the obvious and my preferred solution—but let's just say that it's pretty clear that this hasn't been, to put it politely, a smooth and consistent process. I say this because I want it to be better, but reality is reality.
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Anyway, all the intra-expert (yes, intra-expert: the credentialed experts do NOT have a consensus on many key questions) and intra-elite debate (fine, put me in it if you want) but doesn't solve our problem. Doesn't even address it.
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(Folks, feel free NOT to send me your opinions on Nate Silver, or any single pundit right after I kinda said excessive focus on a single person isn't addressing the problem. Intra-elite debates or jostling are... they are what they are. Uninteresting. Nobody has crystal balls).
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci
Let me add this here. I have seen the full range of opinion on FDAs steps from credentialed experts. No surprise! It's a very tough moment to navigate and NOBODY has "the" absolute right answer because we aren't solving a quadratic equation here.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1382345267148685313 …
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zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepReplying to @EricColumbusI have seen the full range (good, bad, terrible) from experts with all the credentials you want, plus an enormous range of private opinion as well (these fields tend to be quite top down in expressing dissent, as we saw all year, but they are also many outspoken ones).14 replies 25 retweets 326 likesShow this thread -
Conclusion for now, from my first newsletter titled "Against Nostalgia." We are in a transition: a mismatch between our reality and our cultural and institutional capacity to manage it. Nostalgia for the past (common yearning) isn't going to solve this. https://www.theinsight.org/p/against-nostalgia …pic.twitter.com/jbRLSVgPph
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Matthew Herper
Gatekeepers—even weakened—and public health authorities have a huge role to play but the question is way beyond "message". It's about developing capacity for this new public sphere. Constantly saying "listen to experts" (which ones?) doesn't address this.https://twitter.com/matthewherper/status/1382369855861616642 …
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Matthew HerperVerified account @matthewherperReplying to @zeynepA different question. Yes, there are no gatekeepers. But a lot of yesterday's commentary assumed gatekeepers can control public opinion. Do we want public health officials to think in terms of how their message resonates with the populace? Is that the right framing?8 replies 12 retweets 187 likesShow this thread -
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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Hot take: centering the public debate around whether the pause was TOO cautious is probably the biggest favor we can all give the FDA
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Actually, thinking back on this, you may well be right. I'm just annoyed at the focus on single/few people who tweet, rather than the global mess of a public sphere we aren't equipped to deal with but.. Yeah, better that, lol.
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