Comment by johnp271

Does the McNamara Fallacy have any application to our response to COVID? I often hear pundits of all sorts, medical doctors, epidemiologists, politicians, CDC scientists, etc, make statements such as "the data shows this" and "the data says that" and then follow up with "therefore the science says we must all do such-and-such". I hold a rather narrow, rigorous - maybe closed minded - opinion of what is 'science' (so to me 'social science' is an oxymoron) thus I have a degree of skepticism when data analysis is relied on to heavily for making conclusions that are then called 'scientific'.