Social media influencers are becoming “experts” and people are listening-worse-flocking to them. Great piece by @RMCarpiano #misinformation
Unqualified Covid pundits have become a real challenge to public health education | Fluxhttps://flux.community/richard-m-carpiano/2021/06/covid-influencers-pundits-misinformation-wrong …
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There is no predigested science for me to communicate—badly or not on things I work on. If that were the case, I wouldn’t bother with all this. But in that world the WHO wouldn’t take till December 2020 to recommend masks indoors or until 2021 to get airborne transmission right.
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So if there are any claims of errors in my pieces, they would be mine because they’re my analyses, and not due to some communication misunderstanding. Of course, everyone could make errors or be wrong, but my track record speaks for itself and I’m happy for any examination of it!
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If your claim is that you're an expert on airborne transmission, etc. then the critique in the other thread was right and my defense was wrong. Your Lancet piece was commentary, not original research. It relied on experts in the subject matter's work to make valid points.
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Expertise in evaluating and distilling primary research isn't somehow less valuable expertise. That was my point. Somehow in this thread you seem to have managed to dismiss the people making the argument that communication-based expertise is useful expertise, which is...
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