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The CDC released only a small fraction of the data it collected about COVID, because it felt the data could be misinterpreted. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/

The CDC released only a small fraction of the data it collected about COVID, because it felt the data could be misinterpreted. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/20/health/covid-cdc-data.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/20/health/covid-cdc-data.htm... It also declined to gather other kinds of data altogether (like breakthrough infections). https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/health/cdc-coronavirus-infections-vaccine.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/health/cdc-coronavirus-in... Is this how science should work?

mschuster91 4y ago
> Is this how science should work? Under normal circumstances, definitely not. The problem is, the last time scientific data was misinterpreted on that scale and with the ruthlessness that could be seen during COVID was probably back when the Catholic Church fought against heliocentrism. Scientific discourse requires good faith and a common shared sense of truth, something that COVID deniers and antivaxxers lack to this very date.
- Vecr 4y ago
  How would scientists get and publish the data if they don't know it exists? Or, if they intellectually think it probably exists, that's different from actually seeing that it exists. I think the CDC is totally wrong, what they did/are doing has a massive impact on the quality of "the science" (as in normal science where the scientists can actually talk about what they did).