my training helps me to kind of understand the mindset of people hesitant or full-blown conspiracy theorist. (...) I hope that my interaction with that person might set them toward that gradual process of unraveling that yarn ball that is the conspiracy mindset." His distinctive afro developed when he spent the first months of the pandemic avoiding the hair salon. Wilson decided to integrate it to his science communication style: "My dad when he was younger had a pretty big afro growing up in the seventies (...) I kind of like that I get to be that image of him now, I hope he's proud of that." He frequently appears on podcasts dealing with misinformation such as Conspirituality and Decoding the Gurus, as well as the medical podcasts This Week in Virology and Dr. Drew's. As of 2023, Wilson was working at Eurofins Scientific. Publications See also COVID-19 misinformation by the United States ScienceUpFirst — a Canadian science communication campaign focusing on the pandemic Vaccine Confidence Project References Science communicators American microbiologists Carnegie Mellon University people People from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania American molecular biologists Living people