Saying no to a re-tweet request, and whether Twitter as a legitimate news source
The other day I re-tweeted a tweet from someone whose Twitter activity I enjoy very much. I like where his links take me, and I appreciate the intellectual and emotional honesty of his own writing. The message I re-tweeted was about Gardasil, Merck’s HPV vaccine marketed in the US.
Diane Harper of the University of Missouri is a prominent researcher who was heavily involved in the Gardasil development program. Over the …