When Misinformation Meets Motherhood: How Uganda’s Pandemic Health Messages Faltered
A qualitative study of 136 Ugandans reveals how COVID-19 misinformation and limited digital literacy disrupted maternal and HIV care, and ...
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Social Media Emerges as Critical Health Infrastructure for Mass Gathering Events
A systematic review of ten high-quality studies finds that social media now functions as core operational infrastructure for mass gathering ...
Why Climate Belief Interventions Keep Falling Short: A Rigorous New Review
A systematic review of twelve randomized controlled trials finds no clearly superior intervention for changing climate change beliefs and flags ...
AI Scores Health Videos on Douyin Nearly as Well as Human Experts, Study Finds
Chinese researchers show that a ChatGPT-4-based framework can assess the quality of lactational mastitis videos on Douyin with near-perfect agreement ...
Global Commission of 30 Experts Launches Bid to Rebuild Public Trust in Science
The World Health Summit Academic Alliance and The Lancet have launched a 30-member commission spanning 22 countries to strengthen academic ...
TikTok Amplified Tylenol-Autism Misinformation Far Beyond the Science After FDA Label Announcement
A content analysis of 53 TikTok videos found that misinformation linking prenatal acetaminophen use to autism drew more than half ...
When AI Says No: How Language Models Became the World’s Newest Moral Authorities
A new study of 100,000 tweets shows that LLaMA 3.2 refuses about 10 percent of paraphrasing requests, enforcing a narrow, ...
Custom Fine-Tuned Transformer Outperforms GPT-4 at Spotting Indian Fake News
Researchers in India have built a custom fine-tuned BERT-based framework that outperforms classical machine learning, deep learning baselines, and GPT-3.5 ...
Battery fires and outback fears: the EV myths Australians refuse to give up
New University of Technology Sydney research based on interviews with 122 Australian consumers shows how socially reinforced misinformation communities sustain ...
Medical Students Learn to Fight Health Misinformation Through New Communications Curriculum
A University of Minnesota study found that a seven-hour mass communications curriculum significantly improved medical students' comfort, interest, and self-reported ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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