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?