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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. Ross Garber‏Verified account @rossgarber 15 May 2021

      Today the ⁦@nytimes⁩ published a piece on a medical issue by someone named Zeynep Tufekci. The NYT refers to her as “Dr. Tufekci” and describes her as a professor. A reader might reasonably infer she is a physician and a professor of medicine. She is a sociologist.pic.twitter.com/44deaPq1T8

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    2. Virginia Heffernan‏Verified account @page88 16 May 2021
      Replying to @rossgarber @nytimes

      Sociology is the crux of the issue here: the vaccine-hesitant & comportment in public space. Would you rather hear from a dermatologist or heart surgeon? Zeynep Tufekci is also not “someone named.” She’s the preeminent voice on the sociology of tech, including medical tech.

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    3. Ross Garber‏Verified account @rossgarber 16 May 2021
      Replying to @page88 @nytimes

      Later tweet noted that I had no issue w NYT publishing the @zeynep piece. And I agree sociology should be a key aspect of public health. And I too have found @zeynep insightful. Point is that readers would justifiably assume she is a physician and not know she is a sociologist.

      63 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 May 2021
      Replying to @rossgarber @page88 @nytimes

      Besides everything else, you’re still missing the obvious point it wasn’t a medical issue I was writing on. If you’re going to start credential-policing (fine, whatever!) try understanding the topic so you do it in the right direction.

      2 replies 5 retweets 160 likes
    5. Ross Garber‏Verified account @rossgarber 16 May 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @page88 @nytimes

      Wasn’t “credential-policing.” Just asking news outlets that identify someone as a Dr. and a professor to also tell readers the writer’s area of expertise. Honestly surprised you object. (Also, the use of masks isn’t at all a “medical issue”?)

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 May 2021
      Replying to @rossgarber @page88 @nytimes

      Sociology of mask mandates/guidelines is, of course, not a medical issue. If you mean masks in community transmission, that's also not a clinical MD issue—epidemiology, aerosol science & infectious disease MDs & more. As example: https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118 … or https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)00869-2/fulltext …

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 May 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @rossgarber and

          It helps to read the piece and understand the topic, in which case you'd realize being identified as an MD would under-qualify me, as per credentials, to write on the topic compared to "someone named Zeynep Tufekci" in this pandemic—but it's fine. My argument could survive that.

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        3. S  😷 💉 💉 💉‏ @vidiot_ 16 May 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @rossgarber and

          So Mr. Garber, Esq.'s argument is that the NYT style guide shouldn't identify PhDs as doctors? Should it follow her byline with her degrees? Or is it that they should compensate for his failure to understand that a piece about sociology is written by a sociologist?

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        1. Ross Garber‏Verified account @rossgarber 16 May 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @page88 @nytimes

          Masks are a sociological issue. (& medical + public health issues.) Just saying NYT should tell us that you’re a sociologist as opposed to MD or English prof. Readers should have tools to evaluate news media and experts. Anyway, thanks for your work and for engaging on this.

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