Forget about evolution, climate change or vaccines – what makes people really lose their mind, apparently, is cats.
“We’ve had posts that have affected people’s lives in a very substantial way, including posts that went beyond the virtual world. People really got threats or disrespectful comments,” says Yomiran Nissan.
“For example, when we wrote about the very, very viral topic of street cats and the ecological problems that they pose. It led to a lot of anger, both virtual and in the real world.”
Nissan is the CEO of Little, Big Science, an Israeli NGO dedicated to bridging the gap between the scientific community and the general public, exposing the latter to scientific news, debates and fun facts in a direct way.
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Little, Big Science CEO Yomiran Nissan is a Technion alumnus.
