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ORIGINAL RESEARCH articleFront. Commun. Sec. Health CommunicationVolume 10 – 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2025.1548575This article is part of the Research TopicHealth Misinformation: Examining Its Presence and Impact across Communication ContextsView all 10 articlesProvisionally accepted 1University …
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Introduction: the unexplained rise of insulin resistance Metabolic health is at an all-time low, hovering just under 7% of US Adults (1). According to the latest NHANES dataset, fewer than 25% of adolescents have an ideal HOMA-IR score of 1 or less (2). IR often progresses to type 2 diabetes. But …
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Provisionally accepted This article is a commentary on:Evaluating the Effects of Seed Oils on Lipid Profile, Inflammatory and Oxidative Markers, and Glycemic Control of Diabetic and Dyslipidemic Patients: A Systematic Review of Clinical StudiesRead original articleThe final, formatted version of …
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Introduction In this Conceptual Analysis, we review our recent research on the role of conspiracy mindset as a barrier to acceptance of vaccination, especially in the context of the COVID pandemic in the US. We focus on the strong relation between the mindset and the acceptance of misinformation …
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1 Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic coincided with the proliferation of conspiracy theories regarding the origins and spread of the coronavirus (Butter and Knight, 2023), which have been shown to negatively affect public compliance with government initiatives intended to combat the coronavirus …
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Introduction The year 2020 undoubtedly left a mark on human history around the world. As the number of infections due to the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), increased around the entire globe, so did the numbers of hospitalizations and deceased (e.g., Phelan et al., 2020; WHO, 2020). To …
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Introduction Vaccines against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) currently constitute the main hope for the fight against the ongoing pandemic. Mass immunization against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) should be considered as a global battle in which no country …
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It is virtually not assimilable to our reason that a small lonely man felled a giant in the midst of his limousines, his legions, his throng, and his security. If such a nonentity destroyed the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, then a world of disproportion engulfs us, and we live in a …
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Since the 11th of March 2020, the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been declared a global pandemic by the (World Health Organization, 2020). The disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 and was first officially reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 (Zhu et al., 2020). Since then, COVID-19 …
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High quality information is critical for the functioning of democracy. Yet, in the era of growing prominence of social media and a high choice news media environment, it is increasingly difficult for citizens to judge the quality of the information they encounter in their daily lives. Moreover, …
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