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This is a very important point. It is incredibly easy to accidentally cherry pick and/or misread results that confirm one's preexisting bias. As a layperson, th
by angelzen 5y ago
This is a very important point. It is incredibly easy to accidentally cherry pick and/or misread results that confirm one's preexisting bias. As a layperson, the default stance is 'I don't know'. Scanning the abstract of a handful of papers for 5 minutes cannot possibly change that stance.
The troubling thought is that in a field as complex and poorly understood as the intersection of virology with immunology at scale in the middle of a pandemic, the Experts are not much more informed than the layperson. I have yet to hear a single Expert showing even a tiny sliver of epistemic humility.