Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook
Does Facebook enable ideological segregation in political news consumption? We analyzed exposure to news during the US 2020 election using aggregated data for 208 million US Facebook users. We compared the inventory of all political news that users could ...
On sale! We Want Them Infected How the failed quest for herd immunity led doctors to embrace the anti-vaccine movement and blinded Americans to the threat of COVID Jonathan Howard MD “...Based in New York City, Dr. Howard served on the front lines in Covid’s first wave. He witnessed a lot of preventable death and suffering. And then he watched, with growing incredulity, as influential scientists
Conservatives Bombarded With Facebook Misinformation Far More Than Liberals In 2020 Election. News outlets on the right post a higher fraction of news stories rated false by Meta’s third-party fact-checking program, meaning conservative audiences are more exposed to unreliable news. : r/science
COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy: A review of maternal and infant benefits
Pregnant women with COVID-19 are more likely to be admitted to the intensive care unit and their babies born prematurely. Clinical trials excluded pre…
Vaccination in pregnancy greatly reduces risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19, and protects babies up to 6 months after birth
COVID-19 vaccination has been shown to be safe in pregnancy, and protects both the mother and infant from severe disease. It’s now also clear that infants’ antibody protection continues after birth.
The New Placebo Mandate for Vaccines: Unethical, Unscientific, and Impossible
Earlier this month, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced plans to require all new vaccines to undergo placebo-controlled trials before approval. According to The Washington Post, an HHS…
Read writing from Dr. Jess Steier on Medium. Public health scientist specializing in evaluation & critical appraisal of evidence. Founder of Unbiased Science, a science comm brand: unbiasedscipod.com
The Weaponization of Pseudoscience: When "Diverse Viewpoints" Undermine Public Health
The critical distinction between asking legitimate questions (the bedrock of scientific inquiry) and the deliberate refutation of established scientific knowledge.
Vaccines and Autoimmunity: Separating Fact from Fiction
Vaccines trigger a protective immune response against infectious foreign pathogens that invade from outside the body, rather than targeting self antigens within.