As a result, the meaning of the endorsement was more robustly incorporated into the edges (Garimella et al., 2018). After creating the network, we applied k-core decomposition (k = 3) to exclude users with only weak connections to the primary discussions (Alvarez-Hamelin et al., ...
in public forums. Weneed to strengthenthe reputational consequences for misleading the public, which currently are quite weak. However, it’s not only unfair butlikely counterproductiveto attack well-meaning parents who have been misled or are misinformed. They are the victims here, not thevillains...
These claims were not always groundless, but their risks were consistently exaggerated. Cases had been known to occur of secondary diseasetransmission due to poor practice. Some physicians used arm-to-arm vaccination—meaning they would use the same instrument to vaccinate a whole line of people—o...
Which I interpret as meaning “more virulent”. Yeah, no, I get that in the absolute sense. In the relative sense, though, the same old level virulence can have more devastating effects against a population that has supplemented its immune response to a suite of drugs that no longer work...