Truthfully, writing about science and health often involves more reading than writing. With the infodemic on the COVID-19 pandemic underway now for ten months, there are an enormous number of articles to sift through. A new and useful AI tool makes the search a bit easier.
SPOILER ALERT How I make “the sausage” of my writing follows.
As a science “journalist,” I can get feeds of upcoming articles across a wide range of topics. Each piece competes with the others for my attention with a snappy line or two, which entices more than inform. Those that have piques my interest lead to a page description that can lead to the articles themselves if I am still awake and paying attention. As a result, I read far more science now than at any time when I was an active clinician. For...