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Fighting the ‘Infodemic’ – changing people’s personal truths

The Oxford ScientistApril 28, 2021January 4, 2023011 mins

Jack Blowers A recent report from the Centre for Countering Digital Hate has revealed 31 million people follow anti-vaxxer groups on Facebook and a further 17 million are subscribed to equivalent YouTube channels – whose videos are likely viewed and shared by many more. Currently, despite the apparent success of the UK vaccination program, there…

Public trust in science: sink or swim?

Shakira MahadevaJune 17, 2020January 5, 2023011 mins

At the time of writing, a search for Covid-19 in the medical publications database PubMed returns over 16,000 papers. There has been an exponential increase in scientific study of the novel coronavirus, and its associated disease Covid-19, since the start of the outbreak. And with it, a surge in appearance of scientists on our television…