Eight rules to combat medical misinformation - Nature Medicine

Vaccination, hydroxychloroquine, masks and long COVID — all have become politicized, leading to the distortion of medical research during the COVID-19 pandemic and highlighting the severe harm that can accrue from medical misinformation and disinformation.

Second, avoid creating hype around your work or making tenuous claims about its significance. Although this sounds obvious, abuses are sadly common. Research in animal models should not be accompanied by incautious claims about human applications; in the absence of causal information, correlations should not be taken to suggest causation; and modeling should never overstate its scope. Be meticulous in specifying sources of uncertainty.

Fifth, if you intend to post a preprint, understand how preprints are received by the public and the media. Biomedical papers often have immediate public relevance and preprint servers have been invaluable for rapid communication during the COVID-19 pandemic, but the press and public do not necessarily understand their provisional nature.

CT_Bergstrom 9. Take steps to address the scientist influencer culture. But I’ll speak personally. when I’ve called out scientists for hyperbolic messaging and was accused of ‘x’ism, others see this and it discredits us all that rational and in kind criticism is now frowned upon.

CT_Bergstrom At this point i don't really care what the WHO or CDC say, because they are not trustworthy anymore and have a lot of blood on their hands. I just cite the CDC because frequently the medical misinformation claims... COME AFTER QUOTING THEM!

CT_Bergstrom A bunch of glittering generalities with no actual information.

CT_Bergstrom Carl, you still have good points... but also, you still need to listen to your own advice. Conflating FL's substantive reasons for pursuing its policies with unthouthful, reactionary responses is itself disingenuous and poor communication. Do better. You too, NM!

CT_Bergstrom Interesting indeed; I wished the author has addressed the intentional misinformation made by scientists driven by political and ideological prejudices.

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