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- The story of Halley’s Comet also offers us a warning, especially meaningful in this moment of global uncertainty. We are living amid a human-made “infodemic” of misinformation surrounding the novel coronavirus and the vaccines we have created to hold the pathogen at bay. It is helpful to know that even in 1910, when Halley’s Comet returned—and was known to be an astronomical body orbiting in our solar system—there were those who saw it as an agent of our civilization’s demise. They were convinced that chemicals from the comet’s tail would seep into our atmosphere and kill us all.
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It's interesting to see how this mis-information is spread and how you can get some groups of people who believe crazy things based off of what they read online. I feel like every company involved in Stem Cells falls for the same sort of misinformation trap. It is great that we are all learning (albeit the hard way) just how much medical misinformation is out there. The question that I battle with is should you treat someone who silence this misinformation and the people who spread it? Honestly, I think you should because they are a public safety concern