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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Last post by LP -The anti-vaxxers will have an hysterical field day with the AZ information, and the shallow end of the media will feed this hysteria.Another problem is that the fear the media and anti-vax brigade propagate have very real world effects.
Of course we accept a lot of what people see on social media is fake, but that doesn't mean it won't create anxiety and doubt, and those doubts are all stresses that everyone of us is susceptible to.
A common stress for the scientists and engineers is driven by doubt, that is the "imposter syndrome", they get bashed by the media and social media fakers and start to worry, this has a real world effect just like the PTSD you describe, and much of this doubt is seeded for profit, to sell adverting, newspapers or to beg for donations / subscriptions.
For me a good first start would be to make the giants of media and social media accountable for propagating fake news, they should be liable when the fake news leads to bad outcomes.