David Robert Grimes
Doctor and Freelance Contributor at Freelance
Cancer researcher, physicist, scoundrel. Author (#TheIrrationalApe / #GoodThinking). Science, Medicine, Foppish hair. Alt socials: https://t.co/lYSkqY4PX8
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2 weeks ago |
scientificamerican.com | David Robert Grimes
From Facebook to X to TikTok, today’s social media giants position themselves as bastions of free speech. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg now says fact-checking caused “too much censorship,” while TikTok brandishes a freedom-of-expression argument against its forced sale. Who, after all, could argue against the untrammeled freedom to speak? The answer, it transpires, might be anyone paying attention.
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4 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | David Robert Grimes
Five years ago today, with more than 2,000 cases of Covid-19 confirmed and the numbers doubling roughly every four days, the then taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, appealed to the public to stay home, “to make the sacrifices, not out of self-interest, but for the love of each other.”Already, the idea that Covid-19 escaped from a laboratory or was even designed in one had begun to take root and was being promoted by conservative voices online and in the media.
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2 months ago |
sciencedirect.com | Wan-Yu Chen |David Robert Grimes |Abdul Basit Suleman |Szu-Huai Lu
Correlation between basal humoral immunogenicity and side effects after receiving the bivalent formulation of a mRNA-based vaccineThe authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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Nov 19, 2024 |
homelandsecuritynewswire.com | David Robert Grimes
MISINFORMATIONMisinformation Really Does Spread Like a Virus, Suggest Mathematical Models Drawn from EpidemiologyPublished 19 November 2024When it comes to misinformation, “going viral” appears to be more than a simple catchphrase. Scientists have found a close analogy between the spread of misinformation and the spread of viruses: how misinformation gets around can be effectively described using mathematical models designed to simulate the spread of pathogens.
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Nov 14, 2024 |
www1.folha.uol.com.br | David Robert Grimes
Estamos cada vez mais conscientes de como a desinformação pode influenciar eleições. Cerca de 73% dos americanos relatam ter visto notícias eleitorais enganosas, e aproximadamente metade tem dificuldades para discernir o que é verdadeiro ou falso. Quando se trata de desinformação, "tornar-se viral" parece ser mais do que uma simples frase de efeito. Cientistas descobriram uma estreita analogia entre a disseminação da desinformação e a disseminação de vírus.
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Whitehouse insisting #lableak is origin of COVID-19, despite zero evidence for this assertion & plenty against it. Aside from the sinophobic swipes, they've also insinuated people like Tony Fauci are complicit: When governments endorse conspiracy theory, democracy suffers https://t.co/ktSFXu3nII
Social media giants profiteer off division misinformation, while downplaying any measure to mitigate those harms lest it hurt profits. In @sciam I suggest our SM giants are effectively a modern tobacco industry, for whom doubt is the product https://t.co/udCe55tx8K
Despite what the NYT seem to think, there's no evidence we were mislead about origins of COVID, & #lableak narratives remain unevidenced, underwhelming conjecture - but the abuse of scientists is very real, as I write in @IrishTimes today: https://t.co/OfEfi4nGKZ https://t.co/h8A3sPgVFx
