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The world of academia is supposed to be a bit self-correcting. If you get stuff wrong and that’s obvious, ideally you follow up.
If you’re an academic leaning on your background to comment very wifey in public, that revision should be equally public.
Cross-ref: COVID commentary
If you’re an academic leaning on your background to comment very wifey in public, that revision should be equally public.
Cross-ref: COVID commentary
And it is completely ok to get stuff wrong despite your best effort.
But if you come out and absolutely slate the measures in place as ‘condemning us to disaster’ or similar, then all you’ve done is left that seed of ‘no one knows what they’re doing’ to grow.
So irresponsible.
But if you come out and absolutely slate the measures in place as ‘condemning us to disaster’ or similar, then all you’ve done is left that seed of ‘no one knows what they’re doing’ to grow.
So irresponsible.
Public health responses are crucially underpinned by public trust.
When those who seem to have expertise leave uncorrected an impression that undermines that, they’ve ended up undermining the public health response.
They’re sort of one of the problems.
When those who seem to have expertise leave uncorrected an impression that undermines that, they’ve ended up undermining the public health response.
They’re sort of one of the problems.
If you feel it’s important to speak up and warn of risks you can see, your role in speaking up to say ‘hey the folks doing this have done a great job responding’ is at least as important.
