If there is one thing the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted, it is how digital misinformation can severely impact public discourse and decision-making. It underscores the critical need for reliable scholarly communication online.   We discuss these challenges with Dr. Suzanne Dumouchel, co-coordinator of...

AI-powered misinformation, extreme weather events and phone addiction: check out the ESMH selection of 20 science and tech news published last weeks on the web.

Sander van der Linden, Ph.D., is Professor of Social Psychology in Society and Director of the Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge.     Professor van der Linden, we have seen many attempts to debunk climate and health disinformation. How...

During the Covid-19 pandemic misinformation has spread like wildfire. How to counter this phenomenon is precisely the topic of the debate held by the ESMH on Friday 20 May 2022, in the European Parliament Liaison Office of Madrid.     An infodemic within a pandemic. One of the most harmful consequences...

Misinformation is a new pandemic, one for which the only cure is knowledge. Informed audiences, media-savvy scientists, and high-quality journalism are key to counter misinformation.   These are the main takeaways from the debate on 'Promoting trust in science to counter misinformation', the third event...

🇪🇸 Consult Spanish version 🇪🇸     Promoting trust in science to counter misinformation: communicating science evidence beyond the pandemic   Who: Organised by the European Science-Media Hub of the European Parliament’s Panel for the future of Science and Technology (STOA) in cooperation with the...

We spoke with chair of the report Frank Kelly, Emeritus Professor of the Mathematics of Systems at the University of Cambridge.   The world's oldest independent scientific academy, the Royal Society, dedicated to promoting excellence in science, has published a new report on the challenge of scientific...

COP26, mental health and misinformation in news: check out the ESMH selection of 35 science & tech news published in the last weeks on the web.