Living with COVID-19-triggered pseudoscience and conspiracies.
Int J Public Health
; 65(6): 713-714, 2020 Jul.
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
This piece of work proposes a way for the wise management of pseudoscience and conspiracy theories.METHODS:
This work encompassed a review of relevant literature and synthesized the critical thoughts on the proper management of pseudoscience and conspiracy theories.RESULT:
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) overwhelmingly challenges the competency of the digital generation. Consequently, public had been left stranded, helpless and anxious, especially during the peak season of the pandemic. However, this crisis creates a conducive environment for pseudoscience and conspiracy theories to proliferate. Pseudoscience and conspiracy theories negatively impacted the effort made to contain COVID-19.CONCLUSION:
This piece of work, however, argues that although pseudoscience and conspiracy theories are real threats to conventional science, effort needs to be made to develop a sort of database to archive and curate them for downstream use.Palavras-chave
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Assunto principal:
Pneumonia Viral
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Teoria Psicológica
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Ciência
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Infecções por Coronavirus
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Pandemias
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2020
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Article