Timothy Caulfield
@CaulfieldTim
Professor of health law and science policy, author, speaker, and TV host. #GoScience #ScienceUpFirst
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https://www.ualberta.ca/law/faculty-and-research/health-law-institute/people/timothycaulfield.html 08-11-2011 01:11:32
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This study will be a hit on X. I expect some creative responses.
Study links conservatism to lower creativity across 28 countries psypost.org/study-links-coโฆ
'...conservative thinking, which emphasizes order, tradition, and predictability, has been suggested to potentially inhibitโฆ
Health information on TikTok: biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/health-inโฆ
From study: 'Most nonmedical influencer-posted TikTok videos about sinusitis are inaccurate, despite being portrayed as medical advice/educational.'
'44% of the videos contained non-factual information.'
#ScienceUpFirst
Marketing of unhealthy food and beverages by social media influencers popular with Canadian children on YouTube, Instagram & TikTok ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/Pโฆ
'Social media influencers play a substantial role in promoting unhealthy food products to children, primarily fast foodโฆ
'Alberta premier stands by pick of โcontrarianโ chair to lead COVID-19 data review' edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/โฆ via Edmonton Journal by Lisa Johnson
1) Having the government elevate a 'contrarian' view isn't about 'fresh eyes', it is the institutionalization of false balance /โฆ
Vaccines: Biomedicine's greatest achievement?
Weโve saved 154 million lives. Want to guess how? vox.com/future-perfectโฆ by dylan matthews via Vox
'Vaccines caused 40 percent of the worldwide decline in infant mortality since 1974...'
#VaccinesWork
The difference between #disinformation and #misinformation , and how to do your own analysis, by Patrick Dell theglobeandmail.com/canada/articleโฆ via The Globe and Mail #journalism #infodemic
Journalistic interventions matter: Understanding how Americans perceive fact-checking labels misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/journaโฆ
'...theย perceived efficacy of third-party fact checker labels was the highest, which was higher thanย the perceived efficacy ofย algorithmic labels and other userโฆ
We have a radical democracy. Will Trump voters destroy it? wapo.st/49SWCxX via Washington Post Opinions
The Founders '...worried that the virtuous love of liberty and equality would in time give way to narrow, selfish interest.'
And, yep, that's is where we are now...
Scientific evidence supports vaccinations Timothy Caulfield Shannon MacDonald, PhD, RN UAlberta Nursing Teen vaccination cut COVID-19 cases by 37% in California, new data show cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/teen-โฆ
Meet the private doctor to the wealthy โ at $40,000 a year cnb.cx/3xKVr6d by Robert Frank cc Samir Gupta
Hyper-personalized?
Reality: Much of biz = mostly science-free nonsense that likely does more harm than good.
Expensive, science-y sounding, wellness woo.