
How to Talk to a Science Denier w/ Lee McIntyre
Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria
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Social Media and the War on Drugs - Where's the Pinch Point?
i worry that we're approaching this the same way we've been approaching the never ending war on drugs, which is going after the low level dealers as if they are somehow responsible or drug trafficking. There was a study out of the centre for countering digital hate which found that 65 % of the antivax propaganda on twitter was due to 12 people. If we could shut up those 12 people, but cynically, looking at who those 12 people are, and some of them have a financial interest, can we actually do that? And i think the pinch point is social media. That's what makes social makes science and il so much more virulent these days. You know, without the ample fires
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