🧵 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 think 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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@Gina I had an delay of 10h, while traveling to FOSDEM because of Deutsche Bahn. I needed to take 5 trains and one bus, instead of one train.
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Torino: opposizione politica? No, collaborazionismo!
@anarchia
Nonostante io sia vecchio, qualche volta cado ancora nell’illusione che ci sia qualcuno che, anche se frequenta le aule del parlamento, sia in grado di pensare in modo indipendente. Poi la realtà mi smentisce. Nei giorni successivi all’azione https://www.rivoluzioneanarchica.it/torino-opposizione-politica-no-collaborazionismo/
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@Gina there is, as always, no easy answer and no easy fix. a) we are a "hub" country aka "junction" in Europe since the beginning of time (cp the many wars since the middle ages) - a trillion external effects from neighbouring countries which moght cause delays (UK ans Japan are islands ...) b) there are some geographical specialties aka bottlenecks in very populated and top business areas along the rhine (solutions known c) we are no 3 GDP country with very solid environmental, participations laws (which i am proud of). Things take time. E.g. BER MUC high speed train.
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@Gina @jonasgraphie as in all European countries it seems.
Ultra-liberal economy ideology at work
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@jpmens I mean, look at the view counter
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@jpmens kids these days...
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@bagder Ten minutes of being read to, is that it?
