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Literacy? Just a sampling of educated people who were pushing this bullshit: Elon Musk (Stanford grad school dropout), Dr Drew (USC MD), Bret Weinstein (UMich P
by LarsDu88 4y ago
Literacy? Just a sampling of educated people who were pushing this bullshit: Elon Musk (Stanford grad school dropout), Dr Drew (USC MD), Bret Weinstein (UMich PhD), Harvey Risch (Yale).
The figures above are reasonably educated and should know better but all share a political leaning that the social media recommender ML systems latch on.
If there is a literacy that can be taught, we need to start agreeing on what that literacy looks like
- DoreenMichele 4y agoAs far as I know, Elon Musk has no medical background. Wikipedia tells me he has degrees in economics and physics and was a cofounder of PayPal. I'm less familiar with the other three you list and in the interest of brevity won't bother to profile each of them. Medical internet literacy absolutely includes educating people that wealth, fame and a willingness to generously and frequently share your personal opinions about everything under the sun, whether you have any expertise or not, does not make you someone people should take medical advice from, especially during a pandemic.