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100 years later, little has changed in Brazil: disinformation and pandemic
About 100 years separate the last two pandemics that hit humanity, but scientific development does not seem to have impacted Brazilian society, including its leaders. Remedies without scientific proof, obviously without effectiveness, have been used in Brazil against the Spanish flu and nothing has...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8889825/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35283989 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v21i4.52 |
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description | About 100 years separate the last two pandemics that hit humanity, but scientific development does not seem to have impacted Brazilian society, including its leaders. Remedies without scientific proof, obviously without effectiveness, have been used in Brazil against the Spanish flu and nothing has changed against COVID-19. But perhaps today the process of disinformation is worse because the Internet and social networks are too efficient to spread Fake News, resulting in doctors, politicians and journalists prescribing all kinds of innocuous medicines. In this way, Brazil and its government conduct an erratic confrontation of the disease, based on scientific denialism, with tragic results. |
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spelling | pubmed-88898252022-03-10 100 years later, little has changed in Brazil: disinformation and pandemic Machado, Silva Heslley Afr Health Sci Articles About 100 years separate the last two pandemics that hit humanity, but scientific development does not seem to have impacted Brazilian society, including its leaders. Remedies without scientific proof, obviously without effectiveness, have been used in Brazil against the Spanish flu and nothing has changed against COVID-19. But perhaps today the process of disinformation is worse because the Internet and social networks are too efficient to spread Fake News, resulting in doctors, politicians and journalists prescribing all kinds of innocuous medicines. In this way, Brazil and its government conduct an erratic confrontation of the disease, based on scientific denialism, with tragic results. Makerere Medical School 2021-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8889825/ /pubmed/35283989 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v21i4.52 Text en © 2021 Machado SH. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee African Health Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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title | 100 years later, little has changed in Brazil: disinformation and pandemic |
title_full | 100 years later, little has changed in Brazil: disinformation and pandemic |
title_fullStr | 100 years later, little has changed in Brazil: disinformation and pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | 100 years later, little has changed in Brazil: disinformation and pandemic |
title_short | 100 years later, little has changed in Brazil: disinformation and pandemic |
title_sort | 100 years later, little has changed in brazil: disinformation and pandemic |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8889825/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35283989 http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ahs.v21i4.52 |
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