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barondelongueuil t1_ja6dqxy wrote

I mean the first news reporting on the bird flu outbreak in Cambodia came from a weird source that really looked unreliable and it somehow got tens of thousands of upvotes.

Yet, when I tried to find anything about it on other major news sources in multiple languages and from multiple countries, I didn’t manage to find even a single article. No statement from the WHO. Nothing anywhere.

So just from that I knew it was a normal outbreak that had no human to human transmission and it was 100% clickbait.

Trust me, if we had human to human transmission of the bird flu, the scientific community would be utterly freaking the fuck out and it would be all over the news immediately.

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CritterTeacher t1_ja7yakx wrote

I think it’s worth considering that the scientific community has learned from the mistakes made during the early days of covid. Science reporting has long been known to lose a lot in translation, but I think there’s a fine line between keeping people informed and putting out incomplete information that will be turned into scare pieces.

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barondelongueuil t1_ja810ay wrote

The scientific community learned from its mistakes… but did the media learn?

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