The Conceptual Framework that Turned the World Covid Crazy

Science Moment 171

And see my Twitter thread on this from 2020…

Mark Changizi @MarkChangizi

0/ Thread on how mass-media-induced fear of COVID irrationally transformed our priors. I have talked a lot about the mass hysteria that was created... This thread gets more at the many facets of common sense it wrecked. <thread>

Mark Changizi @MarkChangizi

The moral of coronavirus19 will be that social contagion via social networks is more dangerous than biological contagion.

See also my 1998 research on the riddle of induction, or Chapter 3 of my first book, The Brain from 25,000 Feet.