>>But I do understand general communication skills, and epistemology has always been an area of strong study. So I do tend to focus on how people in other areas approach the facts and data for their intellectual space.
From what basis? Unless you've a formal qualification, in professional terms you're at best a gifted amateur in all of the above.
>> The epidemiologists I worked with in both Atlanta and LA were some of the biggest hacks I've ever met. They couldn't communicate, couldn't do basic math, and tried to convince everyone that the world was ending in five years.
Sorry but the CDC epidemiologists are the good guys in this Measles outbreak.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW-BGBbs06AHere's what they're facing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxIGfXprbpE
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
