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Anti-vaccine sentiments have been simmering in the U.S. since at least 1998, when theĀ Lancet, a prestigious medical journal, publishedāand later retractedāa fraudulent paper falsely linking childhood vaccines to autism. Theyāve […]
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In West Africa, fact-checkers are cooperating to expand their influence on local, national and international levels to curb misinformation about vaccines. Organizations are banding together, forming alliances with intergovernmental groups […]
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Laurie’s mother, Stephanie, 75, died of COVID-19 in December. “I don’t believe she was supposed to die,” Laurie says. “I blame the misinformation.” Stephanie had been wrapped up in a […]
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Misinformation kills, Barack Obama says, and tech companies, users and lawmakers all have a responsibility to fix it. “The very design of these platforms seems to be tilting us in […]
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Early in the pandemic, Covid patients with very low oxygen levels were put on ventilators, the standard of care for severe respiratory diseases. But some doctors noticed that severely ill […]
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Withholding judgment, appealing to critical thinking and restoring a sense of personal control are among techniques that may be helpful while speaking to people who believe in health-related conspiracy theories, […]
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Twenty years ago, when I set up theĀ Science Media Centre, researchers were notably absent from the nationās airwaves. Frenzies about Frankenstein foods, designer babies and MMR may have gripped the […]
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Using a survey conducted in July 2020, we establish a divide in the news sources partisans prefer for information about the COVID-19 pandemic and observe partisan disagreements in beliefs about […]