More, very encouraging data! https://t.co/0A4aznv51i
— Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH (@JenniferNuzzo) April 15, 2021
But…experts told me herd immunity (with vaccines or not) was impossible and we shouldn’t even try for it. And millions of dipshits were aping that on Twitter and elsewhere.
Figure that out. Because I can’t.
The "listen to experts/science" crowd needs to see the problem: well-credentialed experts IN YOUR FIELD have confident, contradictory assertions all over the place. So it turns into "which experts" which turns into "ones I like"—not really a manageable process for ordinary folks.
— zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) April 14, 2021
It’s cool and fun seeing PhD epidemiologists and virologists offering directly contradictory statements. Surely the normal folks out there will be able to choose the right one? No?
Wow I can’t believe three of the four golden girls are minor-coded. pic.twitter.com/J271KzncFy
— Someone’s failed-clone’s daughter/granddaughter (@MarienneMaid) April 12, 2021
Dammit!
With all due respect to @NateSilver538, he is not an expert on the psychology of vaccine confidence. He is a poll aggregator and political pundit. He is not an infectious disease specialist, epidemiologist, vaccinologist, virologist, immunologist, or behavioral scientist. pic.twitter.com/HBrI6zj9aa
— Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA (@celinegounder) April 14, 2021
Fuck I cannot believe I have to defend Nate Silver from these “experts,” but I guess sometimes one has to do distasteful things because they are correct.
It’s certain that the media and “experts” amplifying absolutely minuscule risks will increase vaccine hesitancy. One doesn’t need 20 PhDs to determine this — just a semi-working brain. Even if it’s the right decision in most contexts, it still will do this.
Also this paper (by Doug French, who was the head of the Mises Institute) argues that Tulipmania was basically due to the oversupply in silver currency in Holland, partially because of pirates bringing home Spanish booty. The new money had to go somewhere… so why not 🌷? pic.twitter.com/kVzm1hzsqt
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) April 14, 2021
Maybe I just take such things for granted, but speculation requires excess currency as a matter of course. How else would it occur?
These People Should Be Required to Get Vaccinated.
All people who are medically capable of getting the vaccination should be required to get it.
If you had any doubts we live in a superstitious culture, look at how people are now treating individual words, as if they were fetishes, inanimate objects possessed of demonic, contaminating powers.
— Patrick Lee Miller (@Plato4Now) March 3, 2021
Raised in a climate where words hold all power, like many are, it’s no surprise that many come to believe spells work. Alas power is not really that way.
Love it. Guess I’m just a sucker for performers who do works warm and playful.
The excellent dancer is Brontë Poiré-Prest.
How can they stop a rollout of a vaccine on nearly no data (when the world and the pandemic continues) but not understand the same principle for closing borders early? Is there incentive to block certain vaccines?
— pedantic uncertaintist duck (@mathtick) April 13, 2021
Extremely poor understanding of risk and meta-risk.
Probably not anything more than that.
Think about how beautifully recursive it is: math is the physical used to describe all(?) the physical!
Once you unlearn and unconfuse your thinking like this, you will go a long way
— Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy (@trishankkarthik) April 13, 2021
Ya’ll have not read your Nancy Cartwright and it shows.
Math worship is deeply weird.