Tag: Misinformation

In science we trust?

This would’ve been a post on the irony of big money coercing the scientific world into bogus claims, like how facebook can be used to study human relationships; a mildly false allegation, compared to what exists out there when you type “fraud science” into google. Turns out, there’s Big Tobacco, Big Carbon, the Big Four, […]

Tags Fake news, Misinformation, Politics, Science, Scientific evidence, Timing, Trust

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Science communication. Has it saved us or has it failed us?

Post author By JoanK
Post date 26th Aug 2021
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Communicating scientific findings has always been a top priority for scholarship, at the individual and the institutional level. Like everything else in life, researchers too have rankings; the more you publish and are cited, the higher up you rank and your chances of getting that job you wanted are increasing by the minute. The Web […]

Tags Misinformation, Public opinion & policy, Science communication