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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We frequently assume the the answer to bad information is good information, in greater quantity than the bad information, but we've known for some time that this is not how human minds work. Dr. Chiang appears to have fallen into this trap.
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Just saw these assumptions about me and how I fell into this like I discovered
#hcsm yesterday. I hope everyone sees the (positive) way many Gen Zs are repackaging health knowledge on social media and drawing GP attention...let’s harness that
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Um, you literally were quoted in an article saying you wanted to recruit healthcare experts to drown out bad information with good information on social media. Sorry if I offended, but it's a newbie assumption that that is an effective tactic. What else shoukd I have thought?
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It's not about not wanting to harness that energy, either. I just want to know what AHSM proposes other than drowning out the bad. I know next to nothing about this platform.that you say you want to build, for instance. It's all very vague on your website, which I've perused.
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For instance I'd love to see examples of that repackaging of health care knowledge of which you speak so that I can study than and, if I find them useful, learn from them. I'd like to know more about your proposed platform, which now sounds a lot more like a black box.
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@AHSM_org launched a month ago. We have a mission and vision that’s focused on helping health professionals use social media and do it responsibly. Like other medical societies we participate in, this will take years to build and yes is very much still evolving1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Fair enough, but you cited Gen Z repackaging of healthcare information as though it already existed. I assumed that meant you knew of examples because that's what it sounded like. Are you saying it doesn't yet?
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Agree with Austin.
@gorskon, with much respect I think you may be underestimating the impact of the power of multiple voices to resonate. That’s what drowning out means.3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
I'm not. Just ask @MarkHoofnagle.) It doesn’t work very well against misinformation and disinformation. It had other uses, but not that one.
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This is, in it’s own way, a hilarious proof of the problem. Multiple experts keep telling you this is false, this isn’t how it works, even linking evidence, and look! It doesn’t change their belief! What am I not surprised? Because that’s what the evidence shows.
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Even scientifically-literate folks, people who are trying to communicate science are resistant to the facts! It’s hilarious. Human heuristics are not rational. The belief in the information deficit theory and “informed debate” will not die, they are as fixed as religion.
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