Dr. Jen Gunter

I think the internet is both an amazing and a terrible tool, and it depends where you end up.

When you Google something, what comes up isn't what's the most scientifically valid.

What comes up is the most popular.

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Yeah.

So I would say, you know, I've been active on social media since 2010 when I first got on Twitter.

And I would say that there has been a progression of disinformation online.

And I don't have good

studies to back this up but my gestalt is is this really happened when reels became a thing when this really short form fast kind of inject it right into whatever vulnerable vulnerable part of your brain it's going into and

Fear is what sells.

Fear is what gets our attention.

Facts are often super boring.

Being really definitive sells.

And you and I know that it's really rare to be super definitive.

I can say, yeah, I get the HPV vaccine.

That definitively reduces your risk.

But we don't have a lot of great data like that.

And there's nuances, but nuances don't play out.

And so I think what we're seeing is this chorus