I recently watched the excellent, Contagion, a film by Steven Soderbergh, which gives a harrowing, scientifically realistic depiction of the outbreak of a highly contagious, often fatal disease. Highlighting both the potentially rapid spread of virus outbreaks and the influence of social media scaremongers/conspiracists in today’s interconnected world, the film is a great advert for why we need our politics informed by scientists’ thinking more than ever.
