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Re:Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes by base698 on Monday March 29, 2021 @10:49AM (#26622528)
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/webmd-and-the-tragedy-...

> 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.

Re:Yes, experts will lie to you sometimes by someguydave on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:40PM (#26630101)
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.