Misinformation

Everything that is wrong with the internet… make sure it’s not YOU. — Labels. I write a lot of narratives. In fact, if you’re new to my writing, you probably think that is ALL that I write. It’s not. I’m just on a fiction hiatus because I’m writing a novel and when I’m doing that, I don’t split my fiction focus. …

New Media outlets are working to create another panic in the absence of new waves of hospitalizations (not just rising “confirmed cases”) of COVID-19. Low-hanging fruit in the news business is a gold mine for these news media outlets. It’s all about profit. But, Monkeypox is NOT highly contagious. — Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert Scientists are trying to understand why the virus, a less lethal relative of smallpox, has cropped up in so many…www.nature.com

Despite massive global data gaps, it is generally accepted that more than 6.3 million of 7.7 billion people have died as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic — that’s more than 0.08% of humanity lost to a single global event. When SARS-CoV-2 hit the world in 2019, saying we were…

“A decent way to combat the wrong ideas is with a good one.” Dr. Adam Tabriz

On Saturday, an 18-year old radicalised white man walked into a grocery store wearing body armour and carrying a gun. He proceeded to open fire, shooting 13 people and killing 10 of them. Most of the victims were Black. The thing is this: he live-streamed the shooting on Twitch. Which…