There is an ironic twist to this story: Haidt's influence on public attention and opinion formation illustrates almost perfectly one of the biggest real problems of the attention economy.
Sebastian Watzl
Yup.
Sebastian Watzl
"I worry more that the public will eventually lose confidence due to the overselling of the bans as the benefits continue to be unconvincing. The history of science is riddled with episodes of scientists ultimately undermining trust by enthusiastically overpromising benefits that never appear."
