Status: staring blearily at science advocacy/ #scicomm responses to the 5G/Covid-19 myth that rely on explanatory interventions that it& #39;s pretty clear from the anti-antivax and other cases *are not persuasive to the people they& #39;d need to persuade in order to be of any use*.

It& #39;s certainly worth circulating accessible materials on what viruses are and how disease transmission isn& #39;t like signal transmission and how the hell anything in the twenty-first century can possibly need a "mast" and so forth. This will have other #scicomm benefits anyway. But

telling people what to do on no justification other than your professed scientific or medical authority doesn& #39;t work. Calling people stupid doesn& #39;t work. Picking at decontextualised details doesn& #39;t work.

Explaining Popperian falsifiability theory REALLY REALLY doesn& #39;t work.