How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future

by Maria Ressa

James H. Fowler and Nicholas A. Christakis, “Dynamic Spread of Happiness in a Large Social Network: Longitudinal Analysis over 20 Years in the Framingham Heart Study,” British Medical Journal 337 (2008): a2338, https://www.bmj.com/content/337/bmj.a2338. Smoking: Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler, “The Collective Dynamics of Smoking in a Large Social Network,” New England Journal of Medicine 358 (2008): 2249–58, https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmsa0706154. Sexual diseases: Elizabeth Landau, “Obesity, STDs Flow in Social Networks,” CNN, October 24, 2009, https://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/24/tech.networks.connected/index.html. Obesity: Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler, “The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years,” New England Journal of Medicine 375 (2007): 370–79, https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmsa066082. 20.I discussed this in email exchanges with Nicholas Christakis, who said the thesis should work but that he didn’t have a data set to prove it as definitively as the ones he and James Fowler had used to formulate the Three Degrees of Influence Rule.