Academic Belief Contagion Simulator

This simulator models how an unfounded claim spreads through a scale-free academic network: a handful of highly-cited hub professors, densely interconnected with each other and fanned out to many peripheral colleagues, versus a sparse scatter of direct peer-to-peer links. Tune the number and connectivity of hubs, the per-contact transmission probability, and compare immunizing the hubs against immunizing an equal number of random peripheral professors — the resulting spread-rate gap is a real, well-documented network-science result, not a stylistic choice.