Misinformation in and about science

JD West, CT Bergstrom - Proceedings of the National …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Humans learn about the world by collectively acquiring information, filtering it, and sharing
what we know. Misinformation undermines this process. The repercussions are extensive …

Modernizing the Bradford Hill criteria for assessing causal relationships in observational data

LA Cox Jr - Critical reviews in toxicology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Perhaps no other topic in risk analysis is more difficult, more controversial, or more important
to risk management policy analysts and decision-makers than how to draw valid, correctly …

The science of science

D Wang, L Liu - Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The rapid development of digital libraries and the proliferation of scholarly big data have
created an unprecedented opportunity to explore scientific production and reward at scale …

Causal language and strength of inference in academic and media articles shared in social media (CLAIMS): A systematic review

N Haber, ER Smith, E Moscoe, K Andrews, R Audy… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Background The pathway from evidence generation to consumption contains many steps
which can lead to overstatement or misinformation. The proliferation of internet-based health …

[HTML][HTML] Corals and their microbiomes are differentially affected by exposure to elevated nutrients and a natural thermal anomaly

L Wang, AA Shantz, JP Payet, TJ Sharpton… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Nutrient pollution can increase the prevalence and severity of coral disease and bleaching
in ambient temperature conditions or during experimental thermal challenge. However …

Reducing health misinformation in science: A call to arms

B Swire-Thompson, D Lazer - The Annals of the American …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The public often turns to science for accurate health information, which, in an ideal world,
would be error free. However, limitations of scientific institutions and scientific processes can …

An analysis of pro-vaccine and anti-vaccine information on social networks and the internet: Visual and emotional patterns

U Cuesta-Cambra… - Profesional de …, 2019 - revista.profesionaldelainformacion …
The communication of information about vaccines and anti-vaccines is analyzed through the
monitoring of issuers, news sites, groups, and messages in social networks. We also …

Assessing heterogeneity and power in replications of psychological experiments.

JM Schauer, LV Hedges - Psychological bulletin, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
In this study, we reanalyze recent empirical research on replication from a meta-analytic
perspective. We argue that there are different ways to define “replication failure,” and that …

Does newspapers coverage influence the citations count of scientific publications? An analysis of biomedical studies

E Dumas-Mallet, A Garenne, T Boraud, F Gonon - Scientometrics, 2020 - Springer
Scientific results traditionally disseminate to the scientific community via scientific journals.
Studies' importance is assessed through the number of citations in those journals. The …

Claims of causality in health news: a randomised trial

RC Adams, A Challenger, L Bratton, J Boivin, L Bott… - BMC medicine, 2019 - Springer
Background Misleading news claims can be detrimental to public health. We aimed to
improve the alignment between causal claims and evidence, without losing news interest …