“…All of this results in the need to promote better scientific literacy in the critical and well-founded distinction, if possible, between facts and valuation opinions (Aristeidou & Herodotou, 2020;Stokken & Børsen, 2020;McGinnis, 2020;Laugksch, 2000), to shape a better response and management of the COVID-19 pandemic (Li & Liu, 2020;Naeem & Bhatti, 2020;Anwar et al, 2020;. In this process of fostering scientific literacy, interdisciplinarity plays an extremely important role (Anderson, Justement, & Bruns, 2020;Serpa, Ferreira, & Santos, 2017;Reiss, 2020). Anwar et al (2020) summarise well the pivotal role of the media in managing the pandemic caused by COVID-19.…”