In a fast-moving crisis, what counts as a settled fact?
deaths for other causes—thus artificially inflating the toll of COVID. After adjusting, COVID deaths dropped to a top 10 cause of death. Don’t get me wrong; “top 10” is nothing to celebrate. But bumping COVID up to the “top five” raises the stakes of authorizing the vaccine for young children and provides an ear-catching, cable-news-ready talking point. This sleight-of-hand, intentional or not, was misleading. It failed the fact-checking test.
If you’re among the first in your field to propose a new idea, or to blow the whistle on a harmful trend, you’re by definition going against consensus. And, as we’ve seen during this pandemic, what is misinformation today can be consensus tomorrow.Doctors aren’t alone in struggling with how to define misinformation. As neuroscientist and author Erik Hoel pointed out in a, philosophers of science call this the “demarcation problem.
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