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🗓️ 3 May 2023
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It’s more difficult than ever to separate fact from journalistic or political fiction. The idea of “relative truth” has permeated almost every discussion, making it challenging to get straight answers to even some of the most basic questions. Does cholesterol matter or not? Are HPV vaccines safe or too risky? While media spin has always been a problem, it’s reached breaking point, and the majority of us feel disillusioned and frustrated. This week’s guest offers advice on how to identify and fight misinformation.
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Dr. Sander van der Linden is a social psychology professor and Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab. He focuses on how misinformation spreads in online networks and how to protect against false information. He is the author of Foolproof.
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0:00.0 | If you're looking for the truth, if you're researching facts and you're trying to figure |
0:05.0 | out what to do about something in your health or in your community or in the economy, |
0:09.6 | good luck with that today. Maybe you're wondering whether it's safe to take a statin |
0:14.8 | for the rest of your life. Maybe you're considering getting an annual mammogram at your |
0:19.6 | checkup with your doctor, but you've heard that home tests are even safer and more effective. |
0:24.4 | Maybe you're wondering about the HPV vaccine. Do the risks outweigh the rewards? |
0:29.6 | Or maybe you're just trying to figure out what the heck is happening in Yemen or on the |
0:33.9 | Ukrainian Russian border. Good luck with any of those things. Just a quick google search |
0:38.8 | and social media search and you will go down a rabbit hole where experts on both sides |
0:43.9 | are confusing and confounding the so-called facts to the point where normal people 95% of the |
0:50.8 | majority who are not in the extremes and who don't have an agenda, we can't figure out what's |
0:54.4 | going on. It's such a huge problem and it's never been worse because of these platforms that allow |
1:00.2 | pretty much anyone to amplify a message. If it were just lies, I think that would be easier to |
1:05.1 | sift through. What most of the fake news in the media manipulation is is 90% 95% truth |
1:12.5 | with a very tragic lie sprinkled in. And this is where we get so confused. On this week's podcast, |
1:17.8 | we will talk about attempting to pre-bunk yourself from the news cycle, attempting to sift |
1:25.4 | through the chaff and find the wheat and hopefully inoculate yourself from bad information which |
1:31.6 | tends to abound. If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show. I'm a yoga teacher and a trainer. |
1:35.8 | I'm a serial entrepreneur and the father of three kids. Firstly, I'm a student. I like to learn |
1:40.0 | things, go into the world and find PhDs and authors and medical doctors and yoga teachers, |
1:45.3 | bring their work here on the show so hopefully we can live more informed lives. |
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