Orthodoxy, illusio, and playing the scientific game: a Bourdieusian analysis of infection control science in the #COVID-19 pandemic ▻https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/articles/PMC8474098/#__ffn_sectitle
Scientific and policy bodies’ failure to acknowledge and act on the evidence base for airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in a timely way is both a mystery and a scandal. In this study, we applied theories from #Bourdieu to address the question, “How was a partial and partisan scientific account of #SARS-CoV-2 #transmission constructed and maintained, leading to widespread imposition of infection control policies which de-emphasised airborne transmission?”.
