Why do we (dis)trust? A look at the science of credibility

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Alice Fleerackers, Science in Society editor It’s March 9, 2021, exactly one year after the first COVID-19-related death was reported in my home province of British Columbia. I wake up to see Canadian Doctors Speak Out trending on Twitter. Curious, I click through. There, I uncover heated streams of tweets, some calling out misinformation, others […]

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Voices for Canadian #Scicomm100 – Weekly recap: Oct 8-14, 2016

Week 6 is finished! And our Outreach team and supporters have really been powering through our “Reflections: 100 Voices for Canadian Science Communication” campaign. Only 23 voices left to go! With hundreds of Tweets and re-Tweets of the #scicomm100 hashtag and visitors to our Facebook page, our followers now excitedly anticipate who the next Voice […]

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