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As a psychologist researching misinformation, I focus on reducing its influence. Essentially, my goal is to put myself out of a job. Recent developments indicate that I haven’t been doing a very good ...

Science denial has real, societal consequences. Denial of the link between HIV and AIDS led to more than 330,000 premature deaths in South Africa. Denial of the link between smoking and cancer has ...

British researchers and a team from Google found that teaching people how to spot misinformation made people more skeptical of it. By Nico Grant and Tiffany Hsu In the fight against online ...

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