I am all done for now with my tweets decrying the #antiscience of covid policy. Some thoughts in a short thread.
1. My framing of the issues as science vs. anti-science was meant ironically. Covid policy necessarily involves values, morals, & trade-offs as well as science.
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1. My framing of the issues as science vs. anti-science was meant ironically. Covid policy necessarily involves values, morals, & trade-offs as well as science.
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2. Science by itself is not fit for navigating these trade-offs involving values. Scientists should advise policymakers, not substitute for them. In doing so, scientific institutions should be politically neutral or risk alienating the public.
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3. Scientific bureaucrats who foisted these nonsensical policies on the world have done so much damage to the poor, to children, and to working-class people. They have damaged the reputation of science and public health.
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newsweek.com/how-fauci-fool…
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newsweek.com/how-fauci-fool…
4. Reform will require humility by scientific leaders and an honest assessment of harms & errors. Instead, many leaders still politicize, deflect, and pretend as the covid policy they advised & implemented was a success.
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5. The public no longer trusts public health & scientific leaders. New leaders & institutions are needed.
6. Finally, we will need creative policies to alleviate the harms done by #antiscience covid policy to countless millions who suffered under them & continue to suffer.
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6. Finally, we will need creative policies to alleviate the harms done by #antiscience covid policy to countless millions who suffered under them & continue to suffer.
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