Covid Twitter
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2022 9:10 am
The excellent Carl T Bergstrom writes about why the experts aren’t on Twitter nearly as much as they were: https://twitter.com/ct_bergstrom/status ... tr93otF8TA
bad-faith discourse, widespread trolling, and organized brigading have created an information ecosystem in which the top public health accounts on twitter have to speak in koans.
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No wonder so many COVID researchers have thrown in the towel and left twitter. This is what happens every damn time anyone tries to say something thoughtful instead of virtue-signaling their allegiance to one extreme position or the other.
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The serious discussions about COVID are no longer taking place on twitter. One could stay around and do scicomm or outreach here—but efforts to do so end up being a perpetual reminder that the fable of the scorpion and the frog contains more truth than one would like it to.