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If you see a health claim that seems too good – or too bad – to be true, take a moment to step back and assess the evidence.
The health secretary has made many inaccurate statements about vaccines. But the science is clear that vaccines have dramatically reduced childhood illness, disability and death.
Vaccine hesitancy isn’t a moral failure – it’s a property of a system in which people must balance personal and collective interests.
Health influencers – perhaps including Health Secretary RFK Jr. – are promoting the chemical as an elixir that improves memory and focus. But evidence for these claims is thin.
Brazilian disinformation experts Ergon Cugler and Igor Sacramento talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Trump’s nominee for the top CDC role would join the agency at a time of great turmoil and uncertainty for medical research.
Strategies to combat misinformation often focus on written materials and fact-checking. Identifying deepfakes requires different skills.
87% of posts mentioned the benefits of the tests, while only 15% mentioned potential harms.
The story of Belle Gibson, ex-wellness influencer and convicted fraudster, is only the tip of the iceberg of content creators profiting from harmful health advice.
While there are plenty of patient perspectives on social media , resources from healthcare professionals are far fewer – and are often lower quality.
Raw milk has always carried the risk of serious illness, and this risk has only risen with bird flu spreading across dairy farms in the US.
Studies show that health misinformation on social media has led to fewer people getting vaccinated and more lives lost to COVID-19 and other life-threatening diseases.
How can fake news be managed without government overreach? Under the draft bill, platforms continue to be responsible for the content on their services – not governments.
Generative AIs may make up information they serve you, meaning they may potentially spread science misinformation. Here’s how to check the accuracy of what you read in an AI-enhanced media landscape.
The intersection of content management, misinformation, aggregated data about human behavior and crowdsourcing shows how fragile Twitter is and what would be lost with the platform’s demise.
A wealth of research on social media shows that COVID-19 misinformation is damaging to public health.
The spread of misinformation in many pandemics, including the smallpox and 1918 influenza outbreaks, have undermined efforts to contain infections and prevent deaths.
Tech giants such as Spotify like to claim they are platforms, not publishers, and aren’t editorially responsible for the content they host. But with COVID threatening lives, they have to do better.
Skeptics may make demands for absolute certainty to undermine science and delay action. Critiques may not be in the interest of advancing science and public health, but by someone with an agenda.
Top contributors
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Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University
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2024 Oxford University visiting research fellow RIJS; Professor of Political Communication., La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Associate lecturer, Australian National University
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Senior Research Manager, University of Sydney and Honorary Assistant Professor, Bond University
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Professor of Public Health, Washington University in St. Louis
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Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Trent University
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Professor of Immunology, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University of Pittsburgh
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Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Mestre em Administração Pública e Governo, e pesquisador para a estratégia nacional contra a desinformação, Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
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Senior Lecturer, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Professor of Research Methods, Washington University in St. Louis
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Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University
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Professor of Psychology Emerita, Middlebury College
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Assistant Clinical Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, Mississippi State University