Science communication: challenges and dilemmas in the age of COVID-19

A pandemic of misinformation is said to spread alongside the COVID-19 pandemic. The need to properly inform the public is stronger than ever in the fight against misinformation, but what ‘properly’ means in this context is a quite controversial issue. In what follows, I discuss the challenges we fac...

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Autor principal: Antiochou, Konstantina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8267502/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34241709
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00444-0
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spelling pubmed-82675022021-07-09 Science communication: challenges and dilemmas in the age of COVID-19 Antiochou, Konstantina Hist Philos Life Sci Notes & Comments A pandemic of misinformation is said to spread alongside the COVID-19 pandemic. The need to properly inform the public is stronger than ever in the fight against misinformation, but what ‘properly’ means in this context is a quite controversial issue. In what follows, I discuss the challenges we face in communicating COVID-19 health information to the public, with the aim to shed light on some ethical and policy issues emerging in science (communication) in times of crises. Springer International Publishing 2021-07-09 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8267502/ /pubmed/34241709 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-021-00444-0 Text en © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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