If you're an expert in a science cranks and quacks are co-opting, NEVER accept an offer to be interviewed in a movie or video series unless you know who's making it. This is a PLOY that's been used by creationists EXPELLED) & antivaxers (THE GREATER GOOD).https://apple.news/ASx1vruS4S1qgZml_gDVEtw …
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Basically if you're an expert in vaccine-related fields, evolutionary biology, climate science, cancer, or other topics that cranks and aerials try to make propaganda films disguised as documentary, be VERY careful about agreeing to be interviewex for a documentary.
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If you don't, you might find yourself featured in a quackumentary or crankumentary supporting pseudoscience through your deceptively edited words or at the very least facilitating the filmmakers false balance.
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