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Who are the Doctors Who Spread Disinformation and Why Do They Do It?
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As Dr. Oz loses his bid for a seat in the US Senate and the American Board of Internal Medicine moves to strip a falsehood-spreading doctor’s qualifications, we look at the phenomenon of medical doctors spreading COVID-19 disinformation on both sides of the Atlantic.
In this episode, we reference our earlier work:
- On homeopathy: https://www.theinoculation.com/homeopathy-a-pseudoscientific-gateway-to-anti-vaccine-views-and-covid-19-denialism/
- On a Swedish team that got an interview with Andrew Wakefield: https://www.theinoculation.com/how-anti-vaccination-movements-pull-parents-in/
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Links:
https://counterhate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/210324-The-Disinformation-Dozen.pdf
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0256-5
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dr-oz-shouldnt-be-a-senator-or-a-doctor/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/27/anti-vaxxers-making-at-least-25m-a-year-from-publishing-on-substack
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