How to debunk misinformation about COVID, vaccines and masks
How to debunk misinformation about COVID, vaccines and masks
- March 19, 2021
- Cailin O'Connor, lps, Scientific American, April 1, 2021
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In the midst of a raging pandemic, the importance of science communication is indisputable.
… It matters how we respond in these moments. As Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall
wrote in this magazine in 2019, the “social transmission of knowledge is at the heart
of culture and science.”
For the full story, please visit https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-debunk-misinformation-about-covid-vaccines-and-masks/.
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