🧵 Thread with case study for #scicomm may be of interest for @kakape :
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🧵 Thread with case study for #scicomm may be of interest for @kakape :
1) Roberto Burioni, the most known and followed italian virologist, the "italian Fauci", presents on twitter the case of a sentence that acknowledged a causal link with mRNA vaccines and the myelitis that paralyzed a woman. "How are things really?" says Burioni, because without a SCIENTIFIC expanation that put in CONTEXT the LEGAL sentence, the news can sound alarming.
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🧵 Thread with case study for #scicomm may be of interest for @kakape :
1) Roberto Burioni, the most known and followed italian virologist, the "italian Fauci", presents on twitter the case of a sentence that acknowledged a causal link with mRNA vaccines and the myelitis that paralyzed a woman. "How are things really?" says Burioni, because without a SCIENTIFIC expanation that put in CONTEXT the LEGAL sentence, the news can sound alarming.
2) But no context and no scientific information is provided directly by Burioni: following the link to his personal website within the tweet, the scienific knowledge is HIDDEN BEHIND A PAYWALL.
My fear is that the alarm generated by the legal news without scientific published on the Twitter account of Burioni with 342K followers could have been greater than the reassurance provided to the ones willing to pay for it, which presumably already agree with Burioni.
See https://burioni.substack.com/p/il-vaccino-a-mrna-contro-il-covid
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2) But no context and no scientific information is provided directly by Burioni: following the link to his personal website within the tweet, the scienific knowledge is HIDDEN BEHIND A PAYWALL.
My fear is that the alarm generated by the legal news without scientific published on the Twitter account of Burioni with 342K followers could have been greater than the reassurance provided to the ones willing to pay for it, which presumably already agree with Burioni.
See https://burioni.substack.com/p/il-vaccino-a-mrna-contro-il-covid
AFAIK this is the first known case of "celebrity scientist" making profit of scientific popularization, which can be a counterproductive #scicomm strategy where the risk is to polarize the content of the scientists around the paying audience, confirming the prejudices and biases of anti-vaxxers regarding the alleged economic interests that drive virologists to promote vaccines, casting the entire scientific community under the shadow of a single and questionable online business initiative.
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AFAIK this is the first known case of "celebrity scientist" making profit of scientific popularization, which can be a counterproductive #scicomm strategy where the risk is to polarize the content of the scientists around the paying audience, confirming the prejudices and biases of anti-vaxxers regarding the alleged economic interests that drive virologists to promote vaccines, casting the entire scientific community under the shadow of a single and questionable online business initiative.
That's why I'd like to ask @kakape what does he thing about this kind of science communication format and if he's aware of other "celebrity scientists" respected by general public and advicing institutions, who decided to monetize their sharing of knowledge with a paywall, and if he sees the same risks and counterprodutive effects that I see in this initiative.
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@ilarioq @oblomov @freezr @OpenSoul Io vi dico soltanto che i Ministero della Giustizia sta attivando licenze Copilot per la sperimentazione della IA nella funzione giurisdizionale
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@jana extremely important work. Well done!
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Doing the important work (Telling some of my work colleagues about BSD operating systems)
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@GustavinoBevilacqua I think they're ready to swear they saw the UPS trying to commit suicide 🤣
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@mkj I agree. Btrfs has its good points but I don't rely on it.
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The UPS was trying to commit suicide
