Ironically, I've actually reached beyond my credentials a lot during the pandemic, especially to do interdisciplinary work: I *do* get the dangers of this and am always very conscious of it, but I believe my record stands for itself. But lol, this one was smack in my own field.
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True. A medical doctor is not, by training, qualified to write about the sociological aspects of mask mandates so I hope people don't dismiss my piece thinking I'm an MD, nor opinions of other MDs. These question involve all of us and many disciplines.https://twitter.com/rossgarber/status/1393943083239215106 …
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Also, I'm not complaining. After more than a year of pandemic writing, I'm good. But it's hilarious. I get this and also the back-handed "good science communicator" faux compliment a lot—as if I'm just communicating ready-made science rather than my own analysis and synthesis.
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On the serious side, a bunch of what I've done is genuinely lane-crossing, and I've mostly done it in order to facilitate the interdisciplinary, synthetic analyses we do need. There's a genuine question there on how to do this well in general, and the dangers (which are real).
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But also interesting how lane-crossing is not recognized the other way around. Some medical doctors or experts, including those deciding policy, routinely make really unfounded assumptions on the behavioral side, and with great confidence. Not all, of course, but a real issue.
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Anyway, I'm genuinely not concerned (always a worry for me when I highlight these things: please don't think I'm upset one bit). But the part about who gets to analyze complex issues and how we do it, and the hierarchies and interplay between these "lanes" are super interesting.
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When I've time, I'll try to think back on this. I started with need to get ready and masks, then on ventilation/outdoors/aerosols and overdispersion, back-and-forth on the sociology. Ended up with Lancet and PNAS etc. as well. The thread is attempts at synthetic causal analyses.
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Anyway, this was the piece in question. By the way: "sociological aspects" do NOT mean overstate the risks to the vaccinated to compel behavior AT ALL, but about enforcement, readiness, and earning trust via clear explanations etc. Back to some other work.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1393312530932670476 …
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Remembered, this was public. (Didn't work. Next WHO guidelines put this as a risk from masks, without citation. Next one kept it, and cited irrelevant stuff about children—ignoring decades of prior research, and during this, pandemic showing the opposite.) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/business/media/how-zeynep-tufekci-keeps-getting-the-big-things-right.html …pic.twitter.com/i60r73QY6R
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And in a piece where I talk about sociological aspects of mask mandates, too. Cruel irony after more than a year of pandemic writing.
(FWIW, Dr. for PhDs is NYT convention, not about me).