In 2013, an Italian programmer named Alberto Brandolini introduced a concept called “Brandolini’s Law” which goes something like this: The considerable effort of debunking misinformation is an order of magnitude greater than the relative ease of creating it in the first place." Journalists and science communicators have lived and breathed Brandolini’s …
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