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The dental health benefits of adding fluoride to drinking water may be smaller now than before fluoride toothpaste was widely available, an updated Cochrane review has found. The team of researchers from the Universities of Manchester, Dundee and Aberdeen reviewed the evidence from 157 studies …
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image: The authors found that preventative measures, such as exposing participants to counterarguments before they encountered misinformation, were the most effective strategies to challenge conspiracy beliefs. view more Credit: Tom Carnegie, Unsplash, CC0 …
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PULLMAN, Wash. – In the early pandemic, conspiracy theories that were shared the most on Twitter highlighted malicious purposes and secretive actions of supposed bad actors behind the crisis, according to an analysis of nearly 400,000 posts. In the study, researchers identified commonalities in …
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People who believe in conspiracies, reject the covid-19 vaccine, or prefer alternative medicine are more likely to endorse mythical causes of cancer than non-conspiracists but are less likely to endorse actual causes of cancer, finds a study in the Christmas issue of The BMJ. These findings …
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IIASA researchers have analyzed the discussion on eight different conspiracy theories that was spread widely on Twitter during the pandemic. Their work makes it possible to not only estimate the number of conspiracy related tweets, but also to compare the theories among themselves and identify …
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image: Cardboard composition of the Earth surrounded by bacteria. view more Credit: Monstera, Pexels, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) A new, international analysis links belief in COVID-19 conspiracy theories to a lower tendency to support and participate in public health …
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New study suggests that when deciding whether to believe in a conspiracy theory or not, the brain weighs up information from our own direct experience, what the media tells us, the expected cost or reward to us in believing the theory, and our prior views. Conspiracy theories explain social and …
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image: Worry about contracting monkeypox or Covid-19 over the next three months. Asked of 1,580 adults on the Annenberg Public Policy Center ASK survey, July 12-18, 2022. view more Credit: Annenberg Public Policy Center PHILADELPHIA – As Covid-19 cases surge across the United States dominated by a …
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image: How might providers better engage in conversation with patients hesitant to be vaccinated against COVID-19? Findings from data collected as part of the development of an interactive patient-provider conversation guide, available for free at vhguide.ca. view more Credit: Annals of Family …
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image: “Conspiracy” typed out on a typewriter. view more Credit: Markus Winkler, Unsplash, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) A new analysis contradicts popular thinking about beliefs in conspiracy theories, suggesting that such beliefs may not have actually increased over …
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