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PARIS — Conspiracy theories about COVID-19 vaccines play an “outsized role” on social media, driven in part by a lack of reliable information which could threaten their efficacy, an NGO specialising in misinformation warned Thursday. “When people can’t easily access
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TORONTO — A group of international scientists is urging a Canadian university to establish an independent investigation into one of its professor’s research that links fluoride in drinking water to lower intelligence in children. The 14 experts and researchers from
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TORONTO — Misinformation and conspiracy theories can sometimes seem as rampant online as genuine news. And while media outlets and health officials have worked to debunk and disprove many of them—as with the World Health Organization’s “Mythbusters” page—people close to
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U.S. President Donald Trump has been a conspiracy theorist for years. Perhaps never before, though, has he pushed so many conspiracy theories at one time. With two months to go until Election Day, Trump is simultaneously promoting at least nine
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TORONTO — The COVID-19 pandemic has been fertile ground for a deluge of misinformation and conspiracy theories. The latest one gaining wide traction is the false and unscientific claim that links 5G wireless technology to the novel coronavirus. WHAT IS
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Dental health experts worry that more people are using toothpaste that skips the most important ingredient — fluoride — and leaves them at a greater risk of cavities. Most toothpastes already contain fluoride. While health authorities recognize fluoride as a
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By the time Phyllis Goldberg died in 2011, she’d spent the last 20 years of her life institutionalized – a “complete vegetable,” her niece recounts – an “infant.” In the cracked sepia photograph Marlene Levenson holds, her aunt is a
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Green Party Leader Elizabeth May put forward a bizarre petition in the House of Commons Wednesday asking the government to support a popular 9/11 conspiracy theory. The member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands rose to “present a petition, from petitioners
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