{"id":537,"date":"2017-01-23T13:06:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T13:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aniyostsef.com\/index\/?p=537"},"modified":"2017-01-23T19:21:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T19:21:40","slug":"inoculating-public-fake-news-pseudoscience-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aniyostsef.com\/index\/2017\/01\/23\/inoculating-public-fake-news-pseudoscience-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Inoculating The Public From The Fake News And Pseudoscience Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, it is time to inoculate the public to fake news and pseudoscience! This is important research, and we need to be supporting it. As a nation that is supposed to be the more educated and scientifically relevant in the world, we have got to get the general public aware of what is real news and what is fake news, and of what is objective and substantiated science and what is religion pretending to be science.<\/p>\n

As a country, we would not have a stolen election and an illegitimately elected 45th president right now – whose administration is filled with climate deniers and believers in pseudoscience over real science, if we had acted as a People a lot sooner to combat “fake news” and religious myth masquerading in the clothing and words of objective scientific research. It’s called inoculating the public against deliberately spread misinformation for the political and financial gain of a select few within society.<\/p>\n

#ResistTrump #UnitedWeStand #FakeNews #ClimateDenial<\/p>\n

“In medicine we can try to build resistance to infections by injecting people with a weakened strain of the virus or small dose of the virus that will trigger antibodies in people\u2019s immune system to confer resistance. The attitudinal theory of inoculation is exactly the same \u2014 in the sense that what we try to do is pre-expose people to a bit of the misinformation\u2026 then debunk that information with specific facts. This process helps arm people with what I call a cognitive repertoire to resist basically future encounters with misinformation. That\u2019s the basic idea\u2026 We see that we can incrementally protect people\u2019s beliefs about science, through inoculation.” – Dr Sander van der Linden<\/p>\n

Fake news\u2019 power to influence shrinks with a contextual warning, study finds
\nhttps:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/01\/23\/fake-news-power-to-influence-shrinks-with-a-contextual-warning-study-finds\/<\/a>
\nWhat surprised the researchers most about the results of the study? Firstly how powerful misinformation can be, says van der Linden, but also \u2014 on the positive side \u2014 that \u2018inoculating\u2019 people against misinformation can be effective even if a person has an entrenched prior viewpoint.
\n\u201cI didn\u2019t anticipate that the misinformation would be so overwhelming for people,\u201d he says. \u201cI would have anticipated that the misinformation would have some influence \u2014 but not that it would cancel out the facts completely. I think that was quite surprising and also quite concerning, in some way, that people are paying so much attention to this idea of balance. And it\u2019s tricky for people because they don\u2019t know what the sources are, and how credible each side of the debate is \u2014 so it is difficult.\u201d
\n\u201cSimilarly we weren\u2019t sure if inoculating people, depending on their prior position, is going to be effective because some people might already have certain prior beliefs \u2014 and we were surprised by the fact that on average the inoculation worked well, regardless of what your affiliation or your prior beliefs were. This is not to say there aren\u2019t individuals in the study for whom it didn\u2019t work \u2014 and similarly vaccines work for most people but they can\u2019t guarantee they work for everyone \u2014 so I would say that\u2019s very much the same here too. But we were surprised that it worked across the board \u2014 and that is quite promising.\u201d
\nAsked about the global challenge posted by the propagation of misinformation, van der Linden is also relatively upbeat \u2014 pointing out that misinformation is nothing new, even though the popularity of social media platforms has led to an amping up of the fake news volume in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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