Links of the Week
“I kind of blew up my career to write this book”: an interview with journalist Rina Raphael
We hear about misinformation, and how it comes from Gwyneth Paltrow and crazy antivaxxers, but it’s also coming from legacy media. It’s also coming from top publications that all bought into it—and that’s because wellness is treated a lot like fashion by the media industry. It’s not put upon them to really investigate claims, it’s just taken as a given: Of course organic is healthier! Of course clean beauty is right! Everyone’s just mimicking and echoing everyone else.
(I think some of the points are weakly argued because the author attributes them to American-specific factors when the phenomenon is seen around the world.)
Tweets of the Week
The formula itself is not that interesting, but to see how to use classical math as a programming language was cool.
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