Important observation from James Weatherall and @cailinmeister's modeling work: "Originators lose control of their ideas. They cannot just reverse them"
Once you make a claim it's out there.
Retraction is less effective than initial communication.
Once you make a claim it's out there.
Retraction is less effective than initial communication.
Next up is Craig Callender who makes an astute critique to models that show things like overfishing (tragedy of commons), racism (ingroup preference) in the absence of overt biases. Problem with these models: you get racism without racists. It becomes a matter of group dynamics
He adds: the model has an exculpatory feeling of it. You can model scientists as rational agents and *still* show how they help unwittingly to spread misinformation but it is also the case that they, e.g., during the tobacco misinformation campaign, were not wholly innocent.
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