🚨 Key paper by superstar team!🚨 Misinformation and the epistemic integrity of democracy sciencedirect.com/science/articl… "...science and scientists are discredited and how the most recent frontier in those attacks involves researchers in misinformation itself." The goal of misinformation mongers: create distrust & information chaos in order to forward agendas, build brands, and make room for bunk. by @STWorg @Sander_vdLinden @UlliEcker @roozenbot @NaomiOreskes cc @picardonhealth @MicrobiomDigest @DrJenGunter @UbakaOgbogu @EricTopol
@CaulfieldTim @jonathanstea @StanKutcher @marco_zenone @doritmi @AntibioticDoc @SolNataMD @ThinkingPowers @RyanMarino @ScienceUpFirst Looking forward to reading, and certainly agree that misinformation is a problem, but that first sentence—a “common body of knowledge”—could be interpreted as more totalitarian than democratic. @JoeUscinski and @MetacogniShane touch on this issue here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
@CaulfieldTim @jonathanstea @StanKutcher @marco_zenone @doritmi @AntibioticDoc @SolNataMD @ThinkingPowers @RyanMarino @ScienceUpFirst While they cite examples, they don't have any data that I can see to back up their claims. To me, this article seems more like an opinion piece in a newspaper, a liberal newspaper perhaps since a conservative paper would deny such accusations but an opinion piece.
@CaulfieldTim @jonathanstea @StanKutcher @marco_zenone @doritmi @AntibioticDoc @SolNataMD @ThinkingPowers @RyanMarino @ScienceUpFirst Distrust is caused by 1. The scammers who failed to deliver on their promise 2. Or those who warned about the scam
@CaulfieldTim @jonathanstea @StanKutcher @marco_zenone @doritmi @AntibioticDoc @SolNataMD @ThinkingPowers @RyanMarino @ScienceUpFirst The jig is up. Covid made it obvious. Most governments and federal health officials are corrupt and will say anything to protect their corruption. They can't be trusted ever again and they brought it all on themselves with their lies and misinformation.
@CaulfieldTim @jonathanstea @StanKutcher @marco_zenone @doritmi @AntibioticDoc @SolNataMD @ThinkingPowers @RyanMarino @ScienceUpFirst That statement re democracy is a naive joke. It must be. It is perfectly reasonable for people to disagree on the fundamentals of anything It is the process of determining the balance of those opinions & maintaining + recalibrating that state, on which democracy relies