People are really forgetting how strong UK government anti-mask measures were! Mask adverts were banned in March on the evidence-free assertion from PHE that "prolonged use of masks was likely to reduce compliance with good universal hygiene behaviours" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51729647
People are really forgetting how strong UK government anti-mask measures were! Mask adverts were banned in March on the evidence-free assertion from PHE that "prolonged use of masks was likely to reduce compliance with good universal hygiene behaviours" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51729647
People are really forgetting how strong UK government anti-mask measures were! Mask adverts were banned in March on the evidence-free assertion from PHE that "prolonged use of masks was likely to reduce compliance with good universal hygiene behaviours" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51729647
From Time magazine in the US, first week of March: a physician saying that the CDC not recommending masks was proof they don't work, and a senior APA director psychologist brought in to explain the 'superstitious behaviour' of those who wear them 🙃👍 https://time.com/5794729/coronavirus-face-masks/
From Time magazine in the US, first week of March: a physician saying that the CDC not recommending masks was proof they don't work, and a senior APA director psychologist brought in to explain the 'superstitious behaviour' of those who wear them https://time.com/5794729/coronavirus-face-masks/
From Time magazine in the US, first week of March: a physician saying that the CDC not recommending masks was proof they don't work, and a senior APA director psychologist brought in to explain the 'superstitious behaviour' of those who wear them https://time.com/5794729/coronavirus-face-masks/
Same guy speaking in June: "It's clear that mask-wearing is absolutely fundamental to reducing contagiousness in the population, reducing spread, flattening that curve" https://www.wcax.com/content/news/Why-should-you-wear-a-face-mask-571163761.html
oh my word, here's that same APA director in May, just two months later, explaining how you can cope with the anger you feel when other people *don't* wear masks. Total 180 degree turn. Are credentialists' epistemic standards ok?
oh my word, here's that same APA director in May, just two months later, explaining how you can cope with the anger you feel when other people *don't* wear masks. Total 180 degree turn. Are credentialists' epistemic standards ok?
oh my word, here's that same APA director in May, just two months later, explaining how you can cope with the anger you feel when other people *don't* wear masks. Total 180 degree turn. Are credentialists' epistemic standards ok?
I was expecting this to be bad but that APA person has knocked me for six. Just pathologising behaviour which deviates from Official Credentialed Norms, what if they do this all the time and we only can see it when the virus makes the changes so rapid that it's obvious??? Imagine
Good lord, the *same person* back on the 20th February, framing worries about the virus in terms of 'health anxiety' https://www.keranews.org/post/experts-say-coronavirus-poses-low-risk-us-so-why-are-we-so-afraid
Good lord, the *same person* back on the 20th February, framing worries about the virus in terms of 'health anxiety' https://www.keranews.org/post/experts-say-coronavirus-poses-low-risk-us-so-why-are-we-so-afraid
Good lord, the *same person* back on the 20th February, framing worries about the virus in terms of 'health anxiety' https://www.keranews.org/post/experts-say-coronavirus-poses-low-risk-us-so-why-are-we-so-afraid
Good lord, the *same person* back on the 20th February, framing worries about the virus in terms of 'health anxiety' https://www.keranews.org/post/experts-say-coronavirus-poses-low-risk-us-so-why-are-we-so-afraid
A lot of terrible forecasts from credentialed health people weren't based on their own expertise, but faith in the institutional layer *above them*. The best ones corrected as they observed the failures at the top. Here's the same Harvard public health guy in Jan, Feb and March
A lot of terrible forecasts from credentialed health people weren't based on their own expertise, but faith in the institutional layer *above them*. The best ones corrected as they observed the failures at the top. Here's the same Harvard public health guy in Jan, Feb and March
A lot of terrible forecasts from credentialed health people weren't based on their own expertise, but faith in the institutional layer *above them*. The best ones corrected as they observed the failures at the top. Here's the same Harvard public health guy in Jan, Feb and March
A lot of terrible forecasts from credentialed health people weren't based on their own expertise, but faith in the institutional layer *above them*. The best ones corrected as they observed the failures at the top. Here's the same Harvard public health guy in Jan, Feb and March
I think this gets to the nub of it. Much more than I realised before, the role of public experts is often not to use their judgement but to advocate for the party line of a credentialed institution (literally a party line in the WHO's case) https://twitter.com/StuartJRitchie/status/1283323762608410632?s=19
As @ByrneHobart said: https://twitter.com/ByrneHobart/status/1280118897719599104?s=19
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