Article ; Online: How denialist amplification spread COVID misinformation and undermined the credibility of public health science.
Journal of public health policy
2024 Volume 45, Issue 1, Page(s) 114–125
Abstract: Denialist scientists played an outsized role in shaping public opinion and determining public health policy during the recent COVID pandemic. From early on, amplification of researchers who denied the threat of COVID shaped public opinion and undermined ... ...
Abstract | Denialist scientists played an outsized role in shaping public opinion and determining public health policy during the recent COVID pandemic. From early on, amplification of researchers who denied the threat of COVID shaped public opinion and undermined public health policy. The forces that amplify denialists include (1) Motivated amplifiers seeking to protect their own interests by supporting denialist scientists, (2) Conventional media outlets giving disproportionate time to denialist opinions, (3) Promoters of controversy seeking to gain traction in an 'attention economy,' and (4) Social media creating information silos in which denialists can become the dominant voice. Denialist amplification poses an existential threat to science relevant to public policy. It is incumbent on the scientific community to create a forum to accurately capture the collective perspective of the scientific community related to public health policy that is open to dissenting voices but prevents artificial amplification of denialists. |
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MeSH term(s) | Humans ; Public Health ; COVID-19/epidemiology ; Communication ; Public Opinion ; Social Media |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2024-02-22 |
Publishing country | England |
Document type | Journal Article ; Review |
ZDB-ID | 603208-4 |
ISSN | 1745-655X ; 0197-5897 |
ISSN (online) | 1745-655X |
ISSN | 0197-5897 |
DOI | 10.1057/s41271-023-00451-4 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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