This all seems good.

It also seems like an occasion for some thoughts on the Experts Discourse that happened around this a few weeks ago — I never thought “the experts” were wrong and I was right, I thought experts disagreed and one group was right. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-15/biden-plans-less-rules-more-shots-in-revised-vaccination-effort

Something that happens on Twitter is that a lot of people here both have expertise and credentials in a specific field, and also a generalized sense that expertise and credentials are important and they try to uphold pro-expertise values.

That’s all fine, but the thing that generalist policy writers like me have expertise in is *discerning what the expert consensus actually is or whether or not one exists.*

On twitter, pro-expertise people often have misperceptions about this.

This can lead to people who are dispositionally pro-expertise engaging in table-pounding in favor of a consensus that isn’t actually real — oftentimes there’s just disagreement about things but one particular view is visible online by happenstance.

As ever, it is extremely useful when informed people who feel the consensus in their field is being misrepresented in the media reach out — even if it’s done quietly and with a desire not to pick big public sights.