When advocacy obscures accuracy online: Digital pandemics of public health misinformation through an antifluoride case study

B. Seymour, R. Getman, A. Saraf, L.H. Zhang and E. Kalenderian

American Journal of Public Health, 2015, vol. 105, issue 3, 517-523

Abstract: Objectives. In an antifluoridation case study, we explored digital pandemics and the social spread of scientifically inaccurate health information across the Web, and we considered the potential health effects.

Keywords: adverse effects; consumer advocacy; fluoridation; health services research; human; Internet; interpersonal communication; organization and management; social media; statistics and numerical data; trends; United States, Communication; Consumer Advocacy; Fluoridation; Humans; Internet; Organizational Case Studies; Social Media; United States (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2014.302437

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