Health in the age of disinformation – The Lancet
Ed Livingston, Deputy Editor for Clinical Reviews and Education at JAMA Clinical Reviews, shared a post by The Lancet, on X:
“The problem here is who decides what is misinformation?
Almost every Noble-worthy discovery was rejected by contemporary experts when the new ideas were proposed. If we limit information by allowing experts to control it-scientific advances will stop.
Looking back on the pandemic, we now know that most of what we were told by experts was not true. Do we lock those wrong ideas in place by not allowing discussion of dissenting opinion?
The best solution is to maintain completely free speech and allow people to derive their own conclusions from data presented. We, as scientists, need to educate and convince the public with data and not maxims of what we call the ‘truth’.
Language such as ‘climate denier’ needs to go away. Dataless ad hominem criticisms like these have no role in scientific debate. In real science, alternate ideas are considered and the truth determined via experimentation and convincing others with data.”
Quoting The Lancet‘s post:
“The spread of health misinformation and disinformation poses a serious threat to public health.
How can we respond to the danger and combat the tide of misinformation and disinformation to protect public health?”
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