Three Quick Links for Wednesday Afternoon

A list of magazine stories that inspired entire movies (like Hustlers, Spotlight, Argo, Adaptation, The Fast and the Furious (!!), and Boogie Nights). [longreads.com]

Advice from a scholar who studies distrust of science on how to talk to coronavirus skeptics. "We reject scientific findings because we don’t like their implications." [newyorker.com]

A simple explanation of why the Covid-19 pandemic is not "just the flu". "Coronavirus is so much more dangerous than the flu that anyone who suggests they're roughly equivalent is either lying, or does not know what they are talking about." [mailchi.mp]

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