Needle Ingestion via Halloween Caramel Apples

Bajwa, Hammad

doi:10.4065/78.10.1311

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“…The stories do not even have to be true; we all tend to talk about what scares us. In the 1970s and 1980s, urban legends about razor blades in apples led local police stations to set up X-ray machines for scanning Halloween treats and drove some communities to contemplate trick-or-treating bans-despite the fact that the scare was almost entirely fictitious (45,46). An urban legend from our youth, about a parking lot slasher who hides under cars to slice his victims' Achilles tendons (47), has reemerged in 2020, updated for the social media platform TikTok with a new twist about human trafficking (48).…”

Section: Publication Biasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Misinformation in and about science

West

Bergstrom

2021

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Humans learn about the world by collectively acquiring information, filtering it, and sharing what we know. Misinformation undermines this process. The repercussions are extensive. Without reliable and accurate sources of information, we cannot hope to halt climate change, make reasoned democratic decisions, or control a global pandemic. Most analyses of misinformation focus on popular and social media, but the scientific enterprise faces a parallel set of problems—from hype and hyperbole to publication bias and citation misdirection, predatory publishing, and filter bubbles. In this perspective, we highlight these parallels and discuss future research directions and interventions.

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Section: Publication Biasmentioning

confidence: 99%