Debunking Pseudoscience
Life in the Information Age has its perks; we’re healthier, more efficient, and more connected than ever before. But in a world where information is everywhere and social media has created a near-limitless platform for individual expression and subjective, opinion-based content, it can be really challenging to separate fact from fiction. Pseudoscience, or the beliefs and myths we hear that claim to be factual but aren’t supported by science, present a growing threat to erode not only people’s trust in science, but the beneficial impacts that science can bring. Join us here as we debunk some of the false claims and going around, and hopefully provide a light through the confusion.
In a world where scientific misinformation spreads like a virus, productive communication between scientists and non-scientists has never been more important.
To understand how we can communicate science in a way that helps us make well-informed decisions, we first have to understand why communications fail in the first place.
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