#3: Are We Cultivating?
The smell was amazing.
It was a beautiful French restaurant.
I’m so excited to meet the chef and learn about landscaping and how to grow plants.
“Wake up! We are here to relish Coq au Vin with some French wine,” my friend reminded.
Well, how about this?
A 2026 review of 25 studies found that health experts were only slightly more persuasive than nonexperts on social media.¹
A 2024 U.S. study analyzed more than 500 million vaccine-related tweets and found a significant association between vaccine-related activity on Twitter and COVID-19 vaccination uptake.²
We probably wouldn’t ask a chef how to grow our garden.
Yet when it comes to our health, what happens?
Are we cultivating ourselves?
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of 25 studies found that health experts were only marginally more persuasive than nonexperts on social media.
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The study analyzed more than 500 million tweets and found a significant association between vaccine-related Twitter activity and COVID-19 vaccination uptake in the United States.