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No, scientists & doctors didn't "lie" to you about #masks.
To think so requires a fundamental misunderstanding of science & public health policy.
Scientific knowledge changes. Public health policy changes with it.
Mask policy is an example.
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To think so requires a fundamental misunderstanding of science & public health policy.
Scientific knowledge changes. Public health policy changes with it.
Mask policy is an example.
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Science is not a body of knowledge. It doesn't *say* anything.
Science is a process.
We propose hypotheses about how something works in the world, then use experiments that try to disprove those hypotheses. If we can't disprove them, we assume them to be true--for now.
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Science is a process.
We propose hypotheses about how something works in the world, then use experiments that try to disprove those hypotheses. If we can't disprove them, we assume them to be true--for now.
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The novel #Coronavirus is "novel" because it only emerged in humanity at the end of last year. Obviously, that's not a lot of time to study & understand this virus.
When it first emerged, the science community reasonably inferred it would behave like other coronaviruses...
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When it first emerged, the science community reasonably inferred it would behave like other coronaviruses...
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