• it is the conservative nature of science
• to spend years to validates claims.
• Unfortunately, in a global emergency as we find ourselves in now, we don’t have the luxury of a few years.
• In the case of this wicked problem, we need to find a way to make major decisions based on uncertain but plausible data
• The misinformation has the effect of causing society to set the wrong priorities and making things worse

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