Weight-of-Evidence Strategies to Mitigate the Influence of Messages of Science Denialism in Public Discussions

In mass media, the positions of science deniers and scientific-consensus advocates are repeatedly presented in a balanced manner. This false balance increases the spread of misinformation under the guise of objectivity. Weight-of-evidence strategies are an alternative, in which journalists lend weig...

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Autores principales: Schmid, Philipp, Schwarzer, Marius, Betsch, Cornelia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7528676/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33043246
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/joc.125