Thesis: science alone cannot do anything to stop, or even substantially slow, the spread of disinformation. That is a political problem & can only be solved by politics.
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preaching to the choir here (political scientist). yes.
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Agreed, it’s a political problem. Lyle Scruggs and I found in an exp earlier this year that correcting misinfo also easiest when Republicans are the source of the correction.https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10584-018-2192-4 …
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Also curious if scientists speaking out more to address partisan misinfo would impact public perceptions of them. (
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Also, our later study found that even risk communication on partisan issues can impact perceptions of scientists... http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/5/2/170505 …
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More qualitative, and focused on social science, here’s my article titled ‘
#Scicomm in a Post-Truth Landscape’ and ways scientists can combat it through social media —https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-93012-1_14 … - 2 more replies
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Quite ironic that the typo "scions of Silicone Valley” crept into a paper on post-truth!
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Thanks for the heads-up. ;-)
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I’ve fought over how humanities and social studies are critical to STEM Ed here. Totally forwarding this with a lot of passive aggressive coughing to a few people here on campus.
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“Scientific communication in a post-truth society” Shanto Iyengara and Douglas S. Massey, Department of Political Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; and Department of Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ http://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2018/11/21/1805868115.full.pdf …pic.twitter.com/786RKaT4SL
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Let us start to address this serious issue of the spread of #Disinfo &#Psyops online by teaching#MediaLiteracy —including social media literacy—to our children!#EducationIsKey#SupportOurSchools#SaveOurChildren
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While we’re at it, let’s bring back citizenship classes about how government works & what we must do to keep it healthy. And financial literacy.
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Agreed!
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I object to the "both sides of the political spectrum" conclusion. Unlike the Right, which is lockstep with the
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The authors made a big error when they assumed that anti-vaxxers are all or mostly on the Left. That is false. Lots of vaccine refusers are on the Right. In particular, many anti-vaxxers are on the Christian Right or the libertarian right.
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They may have based this perception via false reports, such as when John Oliver smeared
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Try again. (Link correctly places a portion of the blame on the Right, but also says that Jill Stein was cozy with anti-vaxxers). Anti-vaxxers are usually on one or the other extreme of the political spectrum. Rarely are they in the reasonable center. https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2016/08/01/jill-stein-and-left-wing-antivaccine-dog-whistles …
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Equating Jill Stein with the GOP as a kind of "both sides do it" is dishonest.
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