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    1. Marc Lipsitch‏Verified account @mlipsitch 1 May 2021

      Marc Lipsitch Retweeted Boston Review

      Interesting new essay that I mostly agree with, though not sure if astrophysics and medical science, for example, differ in kind or just in degree, in terms of the requirement for social practices to correct individual biases/blind spots.https://twitter.com/BostonReview/status/1388304669349457923 …

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      Trusting science requires more than deferring to the experts. As scholars such as Helen Longino, @msolomonphd, and Naomi Oreskes have shown, the integrity and objectivity of scientific knowledge depend crucially on social practices: http://bostonreview.net/science-nature/gregory-e-kaebnick-science-doesnt-work-way …
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    2. Marc Lipsitch‏Verified account @mlipsitch 1 May 2021

      Also I've been thinking as the pandemic has worn on (and on) that the issue of trusting or not scientific experts on the facts is really distinct from the q of what role they should play in guiding decisions.

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    3. Marc Lipsitch‏Verified account @mlipsitch 1 May 2021

      "Follow the science" as a guide to decision making is incomplete if you believe is != ought. Something more like "incorporate the science" or "Decide how to accomplish your ends while incorporating the best science" or some other clunky formula

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 May 2021
      Replying to @mlipsitch

      One can hardly be against it, but I'm not sure how "civic learning" deals with key problem: that there is no consensus among the credentialed, low predictive-power all-around *and* there's social media.

      1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 May 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @mlipsitch

      There is hardly a question around which you do not find really start differences among people with all the right credentials, and—while not discussed a lot—you can't go by "follow those with good track records"—some things are hard to predict and lots of people were plain wrong.

      1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 May 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @mlipsitch

      I like these ideas in principle, "let's see the science and discuss the trade-offs" but I'm just not making the leap to how an ordinary person is supposed to figure out which science to believe? (That's why I think the public health agencies are crucial: they alone can do this).

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 1 May 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @mlipsitch

      Honestly, build up the trusted gatekeepers seems a lot more workable to me than—the nicer sounding and personally more appealing—let's debate the science in real time (which we do! but that's because something is broken).

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