Covid disinformation prompts Royal Society to consider ways of countering forgeries and falsehoods
lessandro Siani, a biologist based at Portsmouth University, chose to write about research on vaccine hesitancy in the online academic network the Conversation earlier this year. The consequences were unpleasant.of an out-of-context extract of his article was republished online with a new headline: “They knew: why did unvaccinated not do more to warn us?”
Siani had become a victim of fake news, an experience that he will share at a special open meeting on “Past scientific frauds will be revealed and debates held on the lessons that can be learned from previous hoaxes. In Siani’s case, the falsehoods linked to him were quickly revealed and he was exonerated – though not before he went through some fairly disturbing moments. “A lot of people tried to find out exactly who I was and where I lived,” he said. “That is not a pleasant feeling.”
“A century ago, French archaeologists had discovered Cro-Magnons while the Germans had their Neanderthals. Britain had nothing – until Piltdown Man appeared. “It is a lesson for all of us. When something seems too good to be true, it probably is too good to be the real thing.”
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