She/her. I tweet so you don't have to. I study scams and misinformation.
The Misinformation Dumpster
Joined April 2016
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I return to Twitter SOLELY to live Tweet this episode, oh my God, I'm so excited.
(Live Tweet only if I have anything fun to add)
We're back! We missed you!
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Honestly, you could do a whole Maintenance Phase episode on the scientific replication crisis alone. It's a TIME.
I’m mostly no longer here (will be once again deleting this app in 10 minutes) but I do think it’s interesting that I now get flooded with notifications that have nothing to do with me in order to try to lure me back.
I’m back on here for one reason only: i have a tip for misinformation journalists/researchers and I wanted to see if anyone who follows me could put me in touch.
Iz, screaming in epidemiology retweeted
The western press have been finding themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to do reporting next to the middle easterners they've been lying about for generations, and discovering that a lot of those middle easterners speak English and have a few things to say.
Iz, screaming in epidemiology retweeted
This is disastrous and will lead to an enormously increased spread of fascism. Hinkle is part of the most significant red-brown pipeline in the English speaking world. I have seen several of these Strasserites being retweeted uncritically because most people don't know.
Iz, screaming in epidemiology retweeted
A senior researcher at the @ADL named Stephen C. Rea resigned from the organization today.
"I couldn't square my morals and politics with the direction I saw the org going in," he wrote.
I’m reading “Culture of Conspiracy’s” chapters on 9/11 and I’m struck how the conspiracies of the time echo ones I’m seeing circulated right now. It’s not surprising given how conspiracy works, but the same narratives are really being recycled.
