Publications Archive - 2021
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Our new study, "The Hydroxychloroquine Twitter War", found that social media debate was both highly polarized and mostly about politics. Increasingly, the spread of misinformation is about ideological flags/in-group signaling.
"Regulation should emphasize patient agency and consent, and should encourage increasingly sophisticated methods of data anonymization and protection."
Bottom line: lots of GUT HYPE and little good science. "‘Gut health’ and the microbiome in the popular press: a content analysis"
COVID19 and Vitamin D Misinformation on YouTube.
A need understand alternative health care "not necessarily risk-free endeavours..."
Our new study found private cordblood banking companies pushed idea of high value for current future use. Websites did not typically foreground the likelihood of use (which is slight).
Let’s do better: public representations of COVID19 science
The protection of confidential research data is of key importance to clinical patient safety research.
To understand whether and how crowdfunding campaigns are a source of COVID-19–related misinformation.
The study assessed how the Canadian print media represented essential healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the controversial decision to include liquor and cannabis stores in essential services lists.