Social media influencers for science & facts
Social media have a plethora of Google PhDs and YouTube MDs spreading questionable and often clearly incorrect information. And, now too many senior “experts” in Trump’s administration are among the most prolific spreaders of this misinformation and junk science. The recent DOE report challenging climate change science or the USDS’s “historic reset of US nutrition policy” are excellent cases in point.
However, there are a variety of science “influencers” who are pushing back with fact-based explanations and data-driven explanations. This short article in Nature released earlier this week highlights a few of these science communicators. For example, check out
this Facebook post of Simon Clark debunking climate misinformation, or this YouTube post of Climate Adam and Katherine Hayhoe explaining how to visualize climate change, or this Facebook reel by Jessica Knurick about RFK’s misuse of statistics and logical fallacies.
I’m not particularly active on social media, but when I run across some of these fact-based, science-grounded experts I succumb to the temptation to click and watch. But, at least I can feel I’m learning something worth the investment of a couple of minutes my time.
If you follow some of these science-based influencers or know of others, please let me know who gets the message and facts right. And, if you find these or other equally reliable scientist/influencers on your social platforms, please share and post for others to benefit from credible information rather than rabbit-hole brain mush.
Note: you may be asked to establish a profile to read this and subsequent Nature articles for free.
Cheers, Bill
