Scientists become targets on social media, and battling space weather
Science Magazine Podcast
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Social Media and Email Abuse
This is mainly focused on science communication on social media during hoved times, but talking about scientific controversies has drawn fewer for a long time. Peter hotes, who of vaccine researcher at baylor university, told me that he will often have segments on fox news then criticise his tonce on the pandemic,. and then that and leash his torrents of antisemetic abuse on twitter especially. I spoke to a number of climate scientists who've been experiencing these kinds of attacks for decades, obviously not on social media, but through email, in person, political attacks. And one horrible story, somebody found a dead rat outside his house. Somebody else told me about their child finding postcards
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