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Carl T. Bergstrom (ct_bergstrom@fediscience.org)'s status on Monday, 19-Dec-2022 16:17:37 JST Carl T. Bergstrom

Some of you may have seen Elon Musk's endorsement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s crazy antivax conspiracy theories today.
Over at post.news, I just posted a long-form piece about this, and about how science education needs to adapt to online disinformation.
Please a look. If you like it, boost it there or here or — if you dare — over on the birdsite.
https://post.news/article/2J7VEapSIpNWsrC0EawD8CopYqo
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1. Science education in an age of twitter disinformation tl;dr — Science education needs to adapt to a world of misinformation on social media and beyond. Today, prominent antivaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tweeted the ridiculous claim that as director of the NIAID, Dr. Fauci bought the silence of the entire worldwide virology community by handing out research grants. Elon Musk then affirmed and amplified his claim. With even a rudimentary understanding of how science works as a social institution, it is obvious that Kennedy is lying yet again. But in the classroom, we don't teach how science works as a social institution. It's time to fix that.
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2. Science education in an age of twitter disinformation / Post.
  
  from Carl Bergstrom
  
  tl;dr

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