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Journalistic entropy

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Analysis Scicomm conspiracy theories coronavirus pandemic COVID-19 entropy fact-checking false balance health journalism image compression Indian Council of Medical Research information theory Prime Minister Narendra Modi Priyanka Pulla pseudoscience science journalism thermodynamics Washington Post

Say you need to store a square image 1,000 pixels wide to a side with the smallest filesize (setting aside compression techniques). The image begins with the colour #009900 on the left side and, as yo…

Dehumanising language during an outbreak

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Op-eds Scicomm Science Amit Shah Bharatiya Janata Party COVID-19 dehumanisation Eman Ahmed epidemic Harsh Vardhan infection infectious diseases local transmission private healthcare public healthcare system Saifee Hospital SARS-CoV-2 science communication science journalism The Guardian Washington Post Wuhan coronavirus

It appears the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has begun local transmission in India, i.e. infecting more people within the country instead of each new patient having recently travelled to an already affected…