The use and nature of radioactive iodine (RAI) are complex topics for patients with thyroid conditions to understand. Fear and anxiety over its use, misinformation in patient advocacy books and on the Internet, medical jargon, confusion regarding postscanning and posttreatment procedures, patient literacy, thyroid health status, and several other socioeconomic factors can create serious barrier...

Witnesses are frequently questioned immediately following a crime. The effects of such testing on false recall are inconclusive: Testing may inoculate against subsequent misinformation or enhance false memory formation. We examined whether different types of processing can account for these discrepancies. Drawing from Fuzzy-trace and Associative-activation theories, immediate questions that tri...

I was disappointed in the article by Gabb and Robin (Hyperbaric Oxygen: A Therapy In Search Of Diseases. Chest 1987; 92:1074-82) because it was obviously not submitted for critical review before it was published. To have this article published is a discredit to the journal and an insult to readers. I do not intend to write a major critique of the article but wish to point out that as an attempt...

An increasing number of parents refrain from vaccinating their children. This causes lower immunisation coverage, resulting in disease outbreaks. Online misinformation about early-childhood vaccination is a potential cause this problem. study tests whether warning tool, with the appearance traffic light, can influence parents’ information choices. online experiment was conducted and expecting (...

OBJECTIVE To test the effect of misinformation outside of the laboratory and to explore correlates of the effect, including arousal, cognitive ability, and neuroticism. METHOD About 2 months before deployment to Afghanistan, 249 soldiers enrolled in this study, which was embedded in a larger project. Two months after deployment, participants were interviewed about stressors on deployment and ...

Building on the notion of an intangible resource, this research conceptualizes resilience as resource that can be ascribed to countries (governments and media) explores its sources. After presenting conceptual framework, study uses cross-national comparable data from Eurobarometer (a) determine whether a factor called “resilience misinformation” composed citizens’ attitudes behaviors toward mis...

This study analysed 9657 pieces of misinformation that originated in 138 countries and were fact-checked by 94 organizations to understand the prevalence sources different countries. The results show India (15.94%), USA (9.74%), Brazil (8.57%) Spain (8.03%) are four most misinformation-affected Based on results, it is presumed COVID-19 can have a positive association with situation. Social medi...