I admire his enthusiasm, but "drowning out" quackery and medical misinformation with good information just doesn't work. wish him luck, but I wish he'd also talk to those of us who've been at just this thing for many years, like @MarkHoofnagle and others.https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/31/doctor-recruiting-doctors-to-fight-fake-health-info-on-social-media.html …
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Unfortunately, Dr. Chiang is using the "knowledge deficit" model of combatting misinformation. It's a factor that is much less important in how misinformation spreads than commonly assumed.
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If, for example, one Googled “science based medicine blog?”
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I was trying not to toot my own horn, so to speak..
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They also fail to understand that the antivaxers don't see doctors as "legitimate" sources of information but rather a part of a corrupted profession that they are correcting through their "research." Logical arguments aren't persuasive to such a belief system.
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We keep reinventing wheels everywhere. No wonder we have measles outbreaks.
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I don't want to discourage any potential allies, but I want them to be effective. I don't see a knowledge of history and how these disinformation campaigns work here.
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Using my psychic powers, I predict that if there were such a movement its members would get 9th-paragraph token mentions in news articles which promote nonsense.
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And it's not simply about charismatic leadership. Within an evidence-based profession we need to do the unsexy thing of spreading information and good news stories - that according to media analysts are of less interest than bad news and scandal. How to fix this disconnect?
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