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Also a perfect example of how the recanting of a study/news story/etc receives a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the attention of the original. I feel bad for the guy who has been forced to watch his mistake take this monsterous form while desperately trying to tell everyone he was wrong in the first place.
I've heard some cases where a "journalist" will basically just disregard everything a scientist says, reference their name and then spout some bullshit.
Tangentially related, but I imagine the absolute frustration that was in the air as people did research on corona virus. Things that were usually okay and confidence intervals that were scholarly standard must have been tossed out the window because if they decided that it was possible for virus to spread outside despite masks then people would start sending them all death threats.