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.

11:40 AM · Jul 20, 2020

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