Open Access100 years later, little has changed in Brazil: disinformation and pandemic
Author(s) -
Heslley Machado Silva
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
african health sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.391
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1729-0503
pISSN - 1680-6905
DOI - 10.4314/ahs.v21i4.52
Subject(s) - disinformation , nothing , pandemic , humanity , government (linguistics) , the internet , medicine , covid-19 , fake news , social media , internet privacy , public relations , political science , disease , law , media studies , sociology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , epistemology , pathology , philosophy , linguistics , world wide web , computer science
About 100 years separate the last two pandemics that hit humanity, but scientific development does not seem to have impacted Brazilian society, including its leaders. Remedies without scientific proof, obviously without effectiveness, have been used in Brazil against the Spanish flu and nothing has changed against COVID-19. But perhaps today the process of disinformation is worse because the Internet and social networks are too efficient to spread Fake News, resulting in doctors, politicians and journalists prescribing all kinds of innocuous medicines. In this way, Brazil and its government conduct an erratic confrontation of the disease, based on scientific denialism, with tragic results.