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Replying to @mattyglesias
I read a bunch about this a few months ago, and I was sort of astonished at the lack of actual scientific work on the question. It's crazy that Chinese scientists "just know" that viral spreads are airborne and Western scientists "just know" that they aren't.
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Replying to @kdrum @mattyglesias
What on earth are you talking about? They didn’t “just know”. There was work before including, crucially, from SARS. Why did Western science drag its feet (and still does) is a good question. The idea that Asian scientists had baseless beliefs is utter nonsense.
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Think Kevin is alluding to the fact that the two sides had very diff priors & that up until now that seemed to stand w/o scientists on both sides engaging in an aggressive debate Like well before the 2008 Crisis sweet & saltwater econs were throwing major shade at each other
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That is actually not true either: there was an aggressive effort from within the Western scientific corners to try to shift the Western establishment view. Also literally the FIRST PAPER on the genome of the virus out of China suggests “airborne” based on relationship to SARS.pic.twitter.com/K6KcjoRJjs
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I learned about the topic from Asian scientists, started public writing Spring/Summer of 2020, am now a co-author on a Lancet article, Science review and wrote a long piece for the NYT and have been following this the whole time. What Kevin says is utter & complete nonsense.
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