/oss/taxonomy/term/4595/all en /oss/article/covid-19-critical-thinking/anti-vaccine-documentary-died-suddenly-wants-you-feel-not-think <p>People want to feel like their concerns are heard. Being dismissed can lead to loss of trust, which can send people looking for empathy in the wrong places.</p> Fri, 25 Nov 2022 11:00:00 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9306 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19-medical/theres-more-covid-death-rate <hr /> <p><em>This article was originally posted in the <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/christopher-labos-theres-more-to-covid-than-the-death-rate">Montreal Gazette.</a></em></p> Wed, 27 Jul 2022 18:06:06 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 9190 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19-health-pseudoscience/anti-vaccine-propaganda-robert-f-kennedy-jr <p>Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., does not want you to think of him as an anti-vaxxer. I have yet to meet an anti-vaxxer—someone who spreads misinformation about all vaccines being harmful—who is comfortable with the label. Kennedy is not just anti-vaccine; by many recent accounts, he is one of the princes of the anti-vaccination movement, if not its king.</p> Fri, 16 Apr 2021 20:49:45 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8703 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19-health/dozen-misguided-influencers-spread-most-anti-vaccination-content-social-media <p>You may have heard the myth that the COVID-19 vaccines make women infertile and that they have killed more people than the disease itself. This blatant and harmful misinformation does not appear out of nowhere on social media; it has to be crafted. Those images with the scary quotes are made by individuals who upload them to Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for their followers to disseminate like mind viruses. There is something at once encouraging and deeply sad when you realize that all of this hazardous nonsense is the product of a very small group of influencers.</p> Wed, 31 Mar 2021 21:28:08 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8674 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19-pseudoscience/masks-fall-when-antivaxxers-congregate <p>“I try to look and see where the evidence takes me.” Does this statement sound reasonable? If I told you it came from me, you might not bat an eyelash, but these words were spoken by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a famous antivaxxer, during his keynote address for the AutismOne virtual conference. Pseudoscience is insidious because it steals the very concepts that we promote in science and claims to abide by them, and there was a lot of pseudoscience at AutismOne’s conference this year. Truth be told, that’s seemingly all there is every year.</p> Thu, 11 Jun 2020 18:57:31 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8287 at /oss