Open AccessWhen Advocacy Obscures Accuracy Online: Digital Pandemics of Public Health Misinformation Through an Antifluoride Case Study
Author(s) -
Brittany Seymour,
Rebekah Getman,
Avinash Saraf,
Lily H. Zhang,
Elsbeth Kalenderian
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.2014.302437
Subject(s) - misinformation , social media , sample (material) , social connectedness , public health , pandemic , psychology , social network (sociolinguistics) , diffusion of innovations , information dissemination , internet privacy , public relations , sociology , social psychology , covid-19 , political science , computer science , world wide web , medicine , social science , chemistry , nursing , disease , chromatography , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law
In an antifluoridation case study, we explored digital pandemics and the social spread of scientifically inaccurate health information across the Web, and we considered the potential health effects.