Re:Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes
by someguydave on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:40PM
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He's lying about the "noble lie", he literally believed masks did not work - and he's not the only public health person to say that.
> When the Director of the CDC asserts an opinion, she has to optimize for two things - being right, and keeping power. If she doesn't optimize for the second, she gets replaced as CDC Director by someone who does. That means she's trying to solve a harder problem than Zvi is, and it makes sense that sometimes, despite having more resources than Zvi, she does worse at it.