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(1/4) SSC claims medical experts told people not to use masks because there wasn't sufficient evidence backing mask use up and medical experts only recommend things when there is really strong RCT data showing that their recommendations work. I disagree.
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(2/4) These same organizations also told people repeatedly to wash their hands. But meta-analyses have repeated shown hand hygiene interventions don't offer protection against influenza like viruses. And there are countless other examples of medical...
(3/4) experts telling people to do things before good research is done and then years later we find out they caused serious harm (e.g. opioids for chronic pain, saturated fat is the devil, various heart and back surgeries, etc). They do not exhibit a pattern of requiring rigorous
(4/4) proof before making recommendations. Also, the literature suggests that epidemiologists are generally statistically illiterate, so I doubt they care all that much about rigor. For these reasons, I think SSC's explanation is unlikely to be true.

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(1/6) It is a mistake to view academia as an institution which was built to seek truth but which has been captured by other interests. Throughout history, intellectual institutions have usually served the interests of the elites above the truth. This is what they were meant to do
(2/6) This is obvious when we consider academias of the past (e.g. race science of the 19th century, catholic scientists of the middle ages, soviet biology, etc), and when we consider other societies today (e.g. sociology in China). We are not an exception to this rule.
(3/6) Of course, often elites have no interest in hiding the truth and may have an interest in finding the truth and in these cases academia will seek truth more reliably (e.g. physics and biology post Christianity).

This is probably the way it must be, at least to some degree.
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1. First, we were told to focus on not being mean to Asians over the virus. Now, we are supposed to be especially worried about minorities made poor by white racism. These people never miss a chance to spread bullshit about the supposed sins of white people.
2. In reality, whites are the primary source of funding for the public programs that give health insurance to over a third of non-elderly black americans in an economy where blacks have higher incomes than equally qualified whites and receive better funded public education.
3. When you look at experimental tests of racial bias, what you find is that black people exhibit a pro-black bias, white people exhibit no net bias, and liberals (including white liberals) exhibit a racial bias against white people.
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1. A new paper finds the probability of a white cop using force increases the more minorities are in the neighborhood they were called to. The same is less true of non-white cops. Some are presenting this as evidence that white cops are biased...

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2. The paper itself recognizes that this inference is invalid because it could be that it is the non-white cops who are exhibiting bias. In fact, there are several good reasons to think that this is the more likely explanation.
3. First, it is generally true that white american exhibit very little racial bias while minorities exhibit bias that is quite significant. Our priors should therefore be on the side of minorities exhibiting greater bias. Moreover, the use of force by...

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