Bing – DallE “a physician learning from a robot about misinformation”
Welcome, major medical journals, to the battle against misinformation online! We, of the online medical blogging community, who have been fighting the good fight, spreading solid medical information online, salute you!
JAMA is starting a new article series on Medical Communication, and the first article, below is on Strategies to Improve Medical Communication. Yes, a boring title, but lots of really great content, especially about Psychological Inoculation: it turns out that the order in which people are exposed to ideas makes a huge difference in accepting or refuting conspiracy theories.
See article: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2812877
One of the citations from the article is the online game called Bad News (play it at the below link, and then come back!)
https://www.getbadnews.com/books/english/
Folks who played the Bad News game got better at spotting online techniques for misinformation and were thus ‘inoculated’ to reduce their vulnerability to such techniques in the future. And, it was fun to play.
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