I think it's clearly a case of lack of trust for our public health officials at all levels. The conflicting "guidance" issued by CDC and Fauci, Redfield, Zients, Wilenski, the former Surgeon General (a black man) etc. has been destructive of confidence and not just in the black community.
The media and politicians like Biden and Harris implying that we can't trust vaccines that "Trump approved" are also big time culprits.
Arguing, as Pielke does, that this is a social justice issue is really bogus.
My wife and I are both 74, we got both of our Pfizer shots last month and we now are out on the road traveling cross country visiting family and friends and doing the stuff we haven't been able to do for a year now. If I believed the CDC and the Biden/Fauci administration I'd still be at home "sheltering". But you see I understand science and I have a well tuned BS detector honed on the climate change debates.
Roger has done some excellent work on climate change. Maybe he should stick to what he knows.
Great question.. how should the scientific enterprise operate if it were designed for the public to ultimately trust its products? How would affected communities be involved in design and interpretation of research? Which QA/QC protocols would be required of policy-relevant studies. I think it requires re-imagining the structure of the whole biz.
jury is still out on what is necessary and appropriate response short-term vs long-term. hesitancy certainly arises when best practices and accountability for science are rolled back for speed in support of a narrative that may not match reality. there is debate within the scientific community not on vaccines themselves, but the application-timing and longer term risks. take this from former Gates Foundation employee Geert Vanden Bossche...
I’m in no rush to get any of the ‘rona vaccines and unless forced to I may never do so. I’m not anti-vax by any stretch. I just recall thalidomide, and recognize we’re dealing in a whole new form or mRNA work here. I’d rather watch and see how this looks a year from now.
As to “trust”, well, yeah, hard to trust our “institutions” when they hide potential non-vax pharma (cheap), and the CDC comes out with a paper now that says masks were/are basically worthless, all the while the esteemed Dr. Fauci keeps making unbased prognostications and outright lies at times.
I think it's clearly a case of lack of trust for our public health officials at all levels. The conflicting "guidance" issued by CDC and Fauci, Redfield, Zients, Wilenski, the former Surgeon General (a black man) etc. has been destructive of confidence and not just in the black community.
The media and politicians like Biden and Harris implying that we can't trust vaccines that "Trump approved" are also big time culprits.
Arguing, as Pielke does, that this is a social justice issue is really bogus.
My wife and I are both 74, we got both of our Pfizer shots last month and we now are out on the road traveling cross country visiting family and friends and doing the stuff we haven't been able to do for a year now. If I believed the CDC and the Biden/Fauci administration I'd still be at home "sheltering". But you see I understand science and I have a well tuned BS detector honed on the climate change debates.
Roger has done some excellent work on climate change. Maybe he should stick to what he knows.
Great question.. how should the scientific enterprise operate if it were designed for the public to ultimately trust its products? How would affected communities be involved in design and interpretation of research? Which QA/QC protocols would be required of policy-relevant studies. I think it requires re-imagining the structure of the whole biz.
jury is still out on what is necessary and appropriate response short-term vs long-term. hesitancy certainly arises when best practices and accountability for science are rolled back for speed in support of a narrative that may not match reality. there is debate within the scientific community not on vaccines themselves, but the application-timing and longer term risks. take this from former Gates Foundation employee Geert Vanden Bossche...
https://youtu.be/N9PdZn_Yd5w
I’m in no rush to get any of the ‘rona vaccines and unless forced to I may never do so. I’m not anti-vax by any stretch. I just recall thalidomide, and recognize we’re dealing in a whole new form or mRNA work here. I’d rather watch and see how this looks a year from now.
As to “trust”, well, yeah, hard to trust our “institutions” when they hide potential non-vax pharma (cheap), and the CDC comes out with a paper now that says masks were/are basically worthless, all the while the esteemed Dr. Fauci keeps making unbased prognostications and outright lies at times.
CDC paper here: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7010e3-H.pdf