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False online medical claims and lies fuel distrust of conventional science
From anti-vaccine claims to fake cures, social media and politics are awash with disinformation, fuelling mistrust of medical science.
From anti-vaccine claims to fake cures, social media and politics are awash with disinformation, fuelling mistrust of medical science Unfounded cancer cures, dubious anti-vaccine narratives, and false claims that neurological disorders can be “reversed” through diet: influential American and European podcasters are peddling harmful health misinformation while largely escaping scrutiny, researchers say. Earlier this month, actor and director Mel Gibson said on The Joe Rogan Experience – the number two podcast on Spotify in the United States – that some of his friends had overcome stage four cancer after taking the antiparasitic drugs ivermectin and fenbendazole.
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