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metadata.artigo.dc.title: Digging the rabbit hole, COVID-19 edition: anti-vaccine themes and the discourse around COVID-19
metadata.artigo.dc.creator: Smith, Tara C.
Reiss, Dorit Rubinstein
metadata.artigo.dc.subject: Vaccine
Misinformation
COVID-19
Coronavirus
metadata.artigo.dc.publisher: Elsevier
metadata.artigo.dc.date.issued: 2020
metadata.artigo.dc.identifier.citation: SMITH, T. C.; REISS, D. R. Digging the rabbit hole, COVID-19 edition: anti-vaccine themes and the discourse around COVID-19. Microbes and Infection, [S.l.], v. 22, n. 10, p. 608-610, Nov./Dec. 2020.
metadata.artigo.dc.description.abstract: This article draws on a broadcast popular among the anti-vaccine community to map out six themes used by the broadcast to mislead viewers about COVID-19. The themes are the claim that “they” – government and pharma – are lying to you, claims that COVID-19 is an excuse to remove civil liberties, viewing everyone as an expert, claiming that science cannot save us, skewing the science, and a claim that “they” are out to harm the viewers. The article points out that similar themes are used to mislead followers with anti-vaccine information. It highlights the concern that these themes will not only mislead people who are already anti-vaccine about the pandemic, but may draw in people who are not anti-vaccine but are seeking information about COVID-19, and suggests some options for dealing with the misinformation. Scientists benefit from understanding these claims, as we are often tasked with providing rebuttals to this misinformation.
metadata.artigo.dc.identifier.uri: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1286457920302021
http://repositorio.ufla.br/jspui/handle/1/45760
metadata.artigo.dc.language: en_US
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