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Experts have been wrong about many things during this pandemic. It happens; it's normal; it's expected. But what happens after it it turns out that experts have been wrong? The standard model of #expertise suggests that experts change their opinion or become non-experts. 1/
However, evidence from this pandemic suggests that after experts have been found to be wrong about something (say, role of aerosols), they don't change their opinion overnight, if they change it at all. And they can get away with it, still remaining 'experts'. How? 2/
To begin to explain this, let's borrow a framework from physics. According to @skdh, a physicist, physicists have been wrong a lot, so this is a useful field to borrow a framework from. The framework allows us to explain and predict how pandemic expertise develops. 3/
