Inoculating & Prebunking

Google is testing a new approach to helping people identify misinformation online, which the company hopes will stop it from spreading.

A new Canadian Medical Association survey suggests that health misinformation is on the rise. Law professor and research director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta Tim Caulfield gives examples of health and science misinformation, breaks down how to spot it, and offers tips on how we can talk to friends and family about misinformation they might believe is true. For transcripts of The Dose, please visit: lnk.to/dose-transcripts [https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-dose-transcripts-listen-1.6732281]. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. For more episodes of this podcast, click this link. [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dose/id1498259551]

From students to politicians, many smart people have fallen for dangerous lies spread about the new coronavirus. Why? And how can you protect yourself from misinformation?

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If you spend any time on social media, or even email, chances are you read, skim, and swap recent scientific studies. It's impossible not to click on — and share — something with the right teaser of a headline! Compelling headlines aside, not all studies have equal worth .