Post #2400307
2026-05-08 00:36 UTC
I know that I am a crank on this topic - in the Cory Doctorow sense: "Cranks can be right or they can be wrong, but we’re hard to be in coalition with, because we are uncompromisingly passionate about things that other people largely don’t even notice, let alone care about."
But, for better or for worse, I think I will always see my work as a medical librarian through the frame of evidence-based medicine coming to grips (or not) with the fact of SARS-CoV-2 being airborne.
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@nyhan@fediscience.org 2026-05-08 00:37
Certainly, understanding that EBM and evidence implementation are social processes makes me better at my job :)
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@steven@zeroes.ca 2026-05-08 02:38
@nyhan@fediscience.org I really see this as a weakness of EBM. At least as it is practiced by public health. EBM was used to justify ignoring the lab experiments (and unique case studies that form natural experiments) that all but proved airborne transmission in March of 2020, in favour of inconclusive meta analysis of regression models. Doctors pointing to a hierarchy of evidence that works great for biology, but completely fails at comprehending physics and chemistry.