This has been the big lesson of the year for me. You should always respect expertise but also question it and if answers aren't convincing ask more questions. https://twitter.com/s8mb/status/1344218228470460417
At the start of the pandemic I was far too accepting of the official "expert" view that wearing masks wouldn't help; that there was no point closing borders; that letting big events go ahead was fine... all of which looks mad now in retrospect.
Good thread on this https://twitter.com/StuartJRitchie/status/1344233192308535296?s=19
What @StuartJRitchie is proposing is really hard btw. Conformity is an exceptionally powerful driver of behaviour and on social media it's amplified. There are whole chunks of twitter that over-rate arguments from authority and others that see authority as an automatic negative.
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