January 16th, 2022

It’s OK to be wrong. We live in a world where everyone has opinions and absolutely no one is shy about sharing them, whether we want to hear them or not. (Hyperbolic, I know!) With a 24-hour news cycle, internet sites, and everyone’s favorite social me- dia, everyone will let you know what they think in no uncertain terms. So it was rather invigorating for me to stumble across an article from the New York Times about “pundit accountability.” It is about some experts admitting that they have made errors. In the article, the leading epidemiologist for Johns Hopkins University, had written a tweet last March about how Texas’ abandonment of their mask mandate would result in a surge in cases. Two months later, in May she wrote this: I was really worried about Texas’ decision to lift mask requirements. I am happy to report that cases don’t appear to have increased as I feared they would. I like having been wrong about this. The article goes on to say: This small exercise in self-accountability highlighted the inherent unpre- dictability of this virus. [...]

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