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Title: AZ vaccines and mass psychosis
Date: 14-03-2021
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Today is Pi-Day! Let's celebrate the number that contains all the present, past
and future history as well as all the thoughts that are or will have been
generated by all women and men - I know, it's useless but always poetic. 

In these days here in Italy the newspapers have created a big mess about AZ
vaccines. Extremely alarming news is spread and citizens' trust is seriously
compromised. Some titles are totally nonsense. A few hours ago it was reported
that a woman in Sicily is dying from a cerebral hemorrhage. She was vaccinated
14 days ago. The result is that thousands of people are refusing the vaccine.
A huge mass psychosis is spreading fast.

Whose fault is it? Journalists, talk shows, politicians? Sure. But it is also
reponsibility of science - or rather, of the people who do science. The 
distance between researchers and ordinary people is extremely wide. And this 
may not be a problem in peacetime, but it is now. The deep mistrust of science
is now rooted in society - no, I'm not talking about flat-earthers. When the
emergency is over it will be necessary to ask ourselves how to heal this wound,
before it becomes irreparable.