This is an incredibly important lesson in public communications. 'The Crowd' is dumb, even if it's made up of mostly smart people. 'Fact' and 'Communications'

This is an incredibly important lesson in public communications. 'The Crowd' is dumb, even if it's made up of mostly smart people. 'Fact' and 'Communications' are completely different things. FYI it's one of the reasons for cancel culture as well. Most people are not offended, or at least might understand a situation given context. But in a flurry of hype, all of that gets lost. This is multiplied by social media. This is why people occupying positions of integrity i.e. Doctors, Presidents's of Countries have a double responsibility to the Truth to the point where it should be legislated. That said - we always need to support legitimate contrarians - but it needs to be based on fact, not hyperbole. There are some lunatic anti-vaxx doctors on TikTok and I'm really not comfortable with it. 'Free Speech' to disseminate absolute lies is literally costing lives.