There is good reason to believe that wearing a mask is a very low-risk protective measure which can deliver a large positive impact. In other words, masks deliver a lot of bang for the buck.
Saturday, November 6, 2021
Face masks: a lot of bang for the buck!
There is good reason to believe that wearing a mask is a very low-risk protective measure which can deliver a large positive impact. In other words, masks deliver a lot of bang for the buck.
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
Unspinning the misinformation web
Think of all the stories on liberation therapy that made the rounds some years ago. It was pushed on television news shows and in newspapers and magazines and it was totally false. Bright people died getting liberation therapy.
Now, fear of vaccines, most notably the COVID-19 vaccine, is the misinformation story of the year. And hundreds of thousands are dying because of the all-pervasive lies.
To fight misinformation I am posting the following links: read and learn.
If you would like to suggest other sites, please do. If I agree with you, I'll post the links.
The founder of Snopes, David Mikkelson,warned, "The fictions and fabrications that comprise fake news are but a subset of the larger bad news phenomenon, which also encompasses many forms of shoddy, unresearched, error-filled, and deliberately misleading reporting that do a disservice to everyone."
Monday, November 1, 2021
Why you don’t really know what you know
The MIT article was headlined: Why you don’t really know what you know. To cut right to the chase, the reason I am linking to the article is because our system for dispersing knowledge is breaking down. It is under attack by misinformation.
To paraphrase from the linked article, if society undermines its traditional systems of evidence and trust, our
ability to know anything and do anything will break down. I fear the breakdown has begun.