{"id":11675,"date":"2023-09-25T15:38:39","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T13:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/25\/is-it-tiktok-or-global-crisis-how-the-world-lost-its-trust-in-scientists-like-me-giorgio-p\/"},"modified":"2023-09-25T15:38:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T13:38:39","slug":"is-it-tiktok-or-global-crisis-how-the-world-lost-its-trust-in-scientists-like-me-giorgio-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/25\/is-it-tiktok-or-global-crisis-how-the-world-lost-its-trust-in-scientists-like-me-giorgio-p\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it TikTok or global crisis? How the world lost its trust in scientists like me | Giorgio P"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was attacked online for presenting evidence on Covid \u2013 it made me reflect on how we can rebuild public faith in science<\/p>\n

Last year, as the number of Italians getting a fourth booster dose of the Covid vaccine waned, the country\u2019s ministry of health asked me, as a scientist, to appear on a 50-second TV spot<\/a>, explaining why vulnerable people should get another jab. It was aired hundreds of times on television. As a result, I received a lot of emails attacking me; on Twitter and Facebook I was (wrongly) denounced as someone in the pocket of big pharma.<\/p>\n

At the height of the pandemic in October 2020 I\u2019d had a similar experience. At the time, I was president of the Accademia dei Lincei, Italy\u2019s most important scientific academy, and the second deadly wave of Covid was arriving. I argued in a long and reasoned article<\/a>, highlighting the epidemiological situation in detail, that either drastic measures would need to be taken immediately or500 deaths a day could be expected by mid-November (unfortunately the prediction was accurate). Immediately after publication, I receivedemails telling me in the strongest of terms that I had better not get involved in other people\u2019s business.<\/p>\n

Giorgio Parisi is a theoretical physicist and the author of In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems. Together with Klaus Hasselmann and Syukuro Manabe, he won the Nobel prize in physics in 2021<\/p>\n

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\nI was attacked online for presenting evidence on Covid \u2013 it made me reflect on how we can rebuild public faith in science
\nLast year, as the number of Italians getting a fourth booster dose of the Covid vaccine waned, the country\u2019s ministry of health asked me, as a scientist, to appear on a 50-second TV spot, explaining why vulnerable people should get another jab. It was aired hundreds of times on television. As a result, I received a lot of emails attacking me; on Twitter and Facebook I was (wrongly) denounced as someone in the pocket of big pharma.
\nAt the height of the pandemic in October 2020 I\u2019d had a similar experience. At the time, I was president of the Accademia dei Lincei, Italy\u2019s most important scientific academy, and the second deadly wave of Covid was arriving. I argued in a long and reasoned article, highlighting the epidemiological situation in detail, that either drastic measures would need to be taken immediately or500 deaths a day could be expected by mid-November (unfortunately the prediction was accurate). Immediately after publication, I receivedemails telling me in the strongest of terms that I had better not get involved in other people\u2019s business.
\nGiorgio Parisi is a theoretical physicist and the author of In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonder of Complex Systems. Together with Klaus Hasselmann and Syukuro Manabe, he won the Nobel prize in physics in 2021 Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was attacked online for presenting evidence on Covid \u2013 it made me reflect on how we can rebuild public faith in science Last year, as the number of Italians getting a fourth booster dose of the Covid vaccine waned, the country\u2019s ministry of health asked me, as a scientist, to appear on a 50-second …<\/p>\n

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