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Fake News, Misinformation & Disinformation

Fake Health News - Telling Fact from Fiction

Fool Us Once, Shame on You. Fool Us in 2020, Shame on Us. (Opinion)
Do We Really Understand Fake News?
FDA: Products Claiming to "Cure" Cancer Are a Cruel Deception
FDA: Autism: Beware of Potentially Dangerous Therapies and Products
Pharmacological Therapies for Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Review
Peer-reviewed overview of available medical therapies and their limitations.
BBC: How to spot fake health news
Audio broadcast: 27 minutes.
Understanding Health News: Complementary Health Approaches In the News
From the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
Televised medical talk shows—what they recommend and the evidence to support their recommendations: a prospective observational study
Study of claims made on TV shows featuring M.D.s found errors 54% of the time.
Reporting on Quacks and Pseudoscience: the Problem for Journalists
LA Times story.
The Anti-Vaccine Movement, Bad Science, and the Rise of Fake News
Nursing Clio is an open access, peer-reviewed, collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to present-day issues related to gender and medicine.
Communications expert advises how science should respond to fake news
BBC On Misleading Health News
Healthcheck Podcast - BBC News
I Spoke to a Scholar of Conspiracy Theories and I’m Scared for Us

Science and Health News: Better Sources

Centers for Disease Control: CDC Newsroom
Harvard School of Public Health - Featured News Stories
Kaiser Health News
Non-profit Kaiser Family Foundation's health news on the web.
National Institutes of Health - Health News