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Seeing a lot of this "we all make mistakes" argument to justify continuing to promulgate Covid-scepticism.
But there's a huge difference between the sceptics and mainstream scientists. It's called the Scientific Method. Whereby if you put forward a theory and then data... 1/ https://twitter.com/greg_ashman/status/1349861096648163329
But there's a huge difference between the sceptics and mainstream scientists. It's called the Scientific Method. Whereby if you put forward a theory and then data... 1/ https://twitter.com/greg_ashman/status/1349861096648163329
turns up which contradicts that theory, then you abandon it. That's what happened with the "masks are ineffective" theory, and Vallance's proposed "herd immunity" back in March.
Mainstream scientists are acting in good faith - they are motivated by wanting to save lives. 2/
Mainstream scientists are acting in good faith - they are motivated by wanting to save lives. 2/
If their theories turn out to be wrong, they are incentivised to abandon them.
Lockdown-sceptics are motivated by wanting to be right and show how much cleverer they are than everyone else. They have *no* incentive to abandon theories which *keep* turning out to be wrong. 3/
Lockdown-sceptics are motivated by wanting to be right and show how much cleverer they are than everyone else. They have *no* incentive to abandon theories which *keep* turning out to be wrong. 3/
And @NeilDotObrien documents here just how consistently wrong they have been. 4/ https://twitter.com/NeilDotObrien/status/1349815785083064320?s=20
The debate over face masks is an example of their bad faith, when they want to argue "everyone makes mistakes" they say scientists initially got it wrong by saying masks weren't effective. And yet are still themselves claiming that "face-nappies" don't work. 5/
Nobody is saying that writing about Covid-scepticism should be banned, but we are entitled to ask why parts of the MSM give them so much coverage - if being provably wrong isn't a bar to widespread publication, then where are all the phrenologists and alchemists? 6/
What I suspect they're *really* unhappy about, is that so few members of the public buy into their nonsense. And the only explanation they can come up with is that their views are being "suppressed".
Or maybe, they're just wrong. 7/7
Or maybe, they're just wrong. 7/7
