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I wouldn't blame infectious disease experts too much. This is essentially multi-disciplinary research. You need to be BOTH a physics expert in fluid dynamics an
by sumanthvepa 5y ago
I wouldn't blame infectious disease experts too much. This is essentially multi-disciplinary research. You need to be BOTH a physics expert in fluid dynamics and a virologist with a deep understanding of how virus infect the respiratory tract to crack this. Not surprised it took a pandemic to correct the error. The combination of skills would not have been put together in other circumstances.
- dTal 5y agoI don't really agree. All it takes is an unwillingness to simply repeat unsourced dogma as fact, and actually ask some blindingly obvious questions. The root cause of the "mistake" wasn't a lack of fluid dynamics expertise - it was motivated reasoning, which was also terribly in evidence during the pandemic: it can't be aerosol, because that would be terribly inconvenient. Medicine strikes me as a branch of science unusually prone to dogma. I wonder if that's at all related to the punishing hazing ritual of med school, where one is required to do nothing but regurgitate dogma for many years on very little sleep - no creativity or asking questions allowed.