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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Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle
we doctors just can't let the forces of darkness win this neverending fight... some things have to be done. at a governmental scale for instance in France we might be on the edge of stopping the reimbursment of homeopathy.
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I didn't say do nothing. What I did say is that trying to drown out the misinformation with good information is a strategy doomed to fail. Dr. Chiang is using the "knowledge deficit" model of combating pseudoscience, which is incomplete ad largely wrong.https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/jama-on-medical-misinformation/ …
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Replying to @gorskon @docteurmathieu
Doctors aren’t trained in scicomm or counterpropaganda. The response to the disinformed is different than the uniformed. The battle against disinfo is about assymetric warfare with crooks and ideologues against information authorities not “education.”
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Indeed. If you're going to be successful countering misinformation, you have to be intimately familiar with the techniques of disinformation in a context-specific fashion (e.g., antivax versus other misinformation).
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