{"id":3399,"date":"2015-06-09T08:46:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T13:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3399"},"modified":"2015-06-09T08:46:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T13:46:03","slug":"graph-of-the-week-anti-vax-on-twitter-sb277","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2015\/06\/09\/graph-of-the-week-anti-vax-on-twitter-sb277\/","title":{"rendered":"Graph of the Week &#8211; Anti-vax on Twitter #SB277"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/06\/antivaxxers-influencing-legislation\/\">Wired<\/a>, Renee Diresta and Gilad Lotan have posted an excellent bit of data visualization revealing patterns in the online anti-vaccine campaign against California&#8217;s SB-277, legislation designed to tamp down a resurgence of avoidable outbreaks by eliminating the &#8220;philosophical opt-out&#8221; provision from state law.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/files\/2015\/06\/Unknown-2-932x525-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" \/> The visualization allows us to see several distinct communities based on strength of interconnectivity, emegent clusters which the authors have labeled &#8220;autism,&#8221; &#8220;antivax,&#8221; and &#8220;vaccine choice.&#8221; Most disturbingly of all, &#8220;there is no offsetting pro-vaccine Twitter machine,&#8221; presumably because the scientific skeptic community is busy trolling itself.<\/p>\n<p>Probably now is a good time to get involved, especially if you live in California. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Wired, Renee Diresta and Gilad Lotan have posted an excellent bit of data visualization revealing patterns in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,18,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-events","category-damned-lies-and-statistics","category-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}