We have, over the last year, witnessed a modern version of denying Galileo. “Believe science” ought never be conflated with “believe experts”, who got SARS-CoV-2 transmission completely wrong. From @zeynep:https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airborne-transmission.html …
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Yeah. If you were there from the beginning, you do see people who get some right, get some wrong but are open either way. Some are very senior, too! But then there are "teams" whose members can be consistently wrong but rarely concede, and just claim other [team] aren't experts.
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Plus the social media is fueling a "teams" dynamic, where track records of one's own team members can be totally overlooked. I don't begrudge people being wrong, or even consistently wrong, given the situation, but it seems to be rarely acknowledged or impact one's evaluation.
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I’m just trying to align myself with your team
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It's just shocking people keep blaming the people who were trying to follow the science more than those who showed blatant disregard. Just shocking.
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We had a president who claimed it was going away...but yea, the real "problem" was the people who who were at least trying to be responsible. Come on.
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We keep looking at individual heroes with access to public relations agencies to solve the problem; everything and everyone else is sidelined. I hope everyone reads your article. I’ll be reading it again to make sure I understand. I started wearing 3 masks on March 17, 2020.
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Great article/points.I also wonder if bureaucracy played a role. The CDC/WHO processes were just not able to manage something this viral. And when they were caught flat-footed (and wrong), they became defensive. Then they minorly acknowledged it. Finally fully acknowledged it.
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Yeah. Purely anecdotal, but I worked at the CDC before med school, now am a physician/scientist. The culture at the CDC was very bureaucratic - very different than what I’ve since become accustomed to in both medicine and science.
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And often the “wrong experts” are the ones in a position of authority. IMO last year was a failure of authority rather than one of expertisehttps://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1246838637926289408 …
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And I think the reason is explained in
@slatestarcodex's post linked herehttps://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1360061211342118918 …
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