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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"...the people who dismiss experts think they're experts themselves.". Tweet thread.
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COVID Update August 8: Its not just that we have a distrust of experts, its also that the people who dismiss experts think theyre experts themselves. 1/
In the last week I find myself needing to check credentials even more closely. 2/
We have data scientists opining about T-cell immunity. 3/
We have political advisors making proclamations about school safety. 4/
We have people who havent taken a science class in 40 years recommending specific drugs. 5/
We have former newspaper reporters explaining epidemiology and the natural history of disease. 6/
We have legislators opining about how masks dont work. 7/
We have family doctors on Fox who consider COVID the flu. 8/
As long as things are uncertain as they are with a novel virus, its a chance for everybody to weigh in with their opinions. 9/
And then theres the inverse between the amount of data and the amount of confidence. 10/
One of the countrys top epidemiologists & public health officials told me that the people most certain about COVID-19 are those who have the least experience. 11/
Just because experts are wrong occasionally seems to give non-experts the impression they have equal standing. Peter Navarro still isnt Anthony Fauci. 12/
When experts like Fauci say the dont know something, it gives Jim Jordan the license to say arent you an expert? Then Jordan gets to be an expert on protests and outdoor transmissions. 13/
Trump has a cancel-cabinet. Cancel education. Cancel the environment. Cancel housing & urban development. Cancel health & human services. Cancel justice. 14/
So when its time for expertise, Bill Barr can say sure you can do an executive order & Azar can say sure you can force that drug to be approved. When all opinions are equal, hierarchy decides right from wrong. 15/
One day we might have a crisis and then well probably wish that not only that we had a few people who knew something but that we had a few that knew what they didnt know. /end
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"...the people who dismiss experts think they're experts themselves.". Tweet thread. (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Aug 2020
OP
Leith
(7,808 posts)1. This needs to be shouted from the rooftops,
over the air and through cable on TV and radio, and in every conversation.
hvn_nbr_2
(6,486 posts)2. USA has become DKSD
The USA has become the Dunning-Kruger States of Dumfuckistan.