Resources

Articles

• A Pilot Study of Medical Misinformation Perceptions and Training Among Practitioners in North Carolina (USA)

• The Psychological Drivers of Misinformation Belief and its Resistance to Correction

• Defining and Measuring Scientific Misinformation

• Enhancing Clinician Communication Skills in a Large Healthcare Organization: A Longitudinal Case Study

Additional Resources

• Excerpt from our 2018 book on misinformation: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-persistence-and-peril-of-misinformation.

• The Surgeon General’s advisory on health misinformation cites our program on medical misinformation at Duke, the justification for which is described in https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305729 as well as in this JAMA profile: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2774709.

• NIH white paper on communication strategies to address COVID-19: https://obssr.od.nih.gov/sites/obssr/files/inline-files/OBSSR_VaccineWhitePaper_FINAL_508.pdf.

• American Scientist article by Dr. Southwell on misinformation and COVID-19 specifically: https://www.americanscientist.org/blog/the-long-view/what-covid-19-misinformation-says-about-all-of-us.

• Documentary on misinformation and vaccination picked up by PBS this past year features some of Dr. Southwell's thoughts: https://portal.knme.org/show/vaccination-misinformation-virus/. Excerpt: https://videopress.com/v/xFWJWXDs.

• Summary of projects from the Misinformation Solutions Forum: https://www.rti.org/rti-press-publication/curbing-spread-misinformation.

• Relevant work on mental models and public understanding of Zika: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5938769/.

• Summary of our Trust in Science forum: https://www.rti.org/rti-press-publication/trust-in-science

• Consultation and coaching for this AAMC effort

Contact us

Please send questions or comments to mmworkshop@duke.edu