Articles Tagged With: conspiracy
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The Age of Misinformation and Vaccine Hesitancy
Within this broader disinformation is specific distrust of the vaccines under development for COVID-19. In addition, the messaging of doing something potentially dangerous at “warp speed,” along with media descriptions of a “race to a vaccine,” have made people nervous.
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Expert: Anti-Vaxxers Will Try to Undermine Pandemic Vaccine
In a move that threatens uptake of an eventual SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, the nation’s anti-vaccine movement is framing an immunization refusal strategy based on civil rights arguments that likely will be underscored by conspiracy theories.
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COVID-19 Misinformation Affects Everyone in Research Community
Clinical trial recruitment for COVID-19 studies faces a new challenge: Rampant misinformation. Since COVID-19 was declared a national emergency and pandemic, fake news, false cures, ill-informed posts, and conspiracy theories have dominated the social media space. One of the challenges from an IRB perspective involves informed consent and public trust in the shadows of the misinformation world.