Leading voices in the denier choir: Conservative columnists’ dismissal of global warming and denigration of climate science
This article investigates the role of conservative newspaper columnists in the climate change denial campaign, analyzing 203 opinion editorials written by 80 different columnists from 2007 to 2010.
Climate change and the media. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
This book by Schafer highlights the need for more inclusive research on media portrayals of climate change. By incorporating non-Western countries and diverse media formats in studies, the book advocates for a…
Structure and content of the discourse on climate change in the blogosphere: The big picture
Through a combination of community detection and probabilistic topic modeling, this article analyzes the discourse on climate change in the English-language blogosphere. It finds distinct communities of skeptics and accepters with significant…
Misinformation, Disinformation, And Malinformation: Clarifying The Definitions And Examples In Disinfodemic Times
The goal of the paper is to provide an understanding of the three terms: misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation based on 16 parameters linked to their intentionality. The paper concludes that definition is…
Scientific Misinformation in the Light of the Smart World and Smart Organizations. Imperatives and Challenges
A theoretical study that analysis the concept of misinformation in the literature over the past decade, specifically in the databases of Emerald, Ebsco, and Springer. It emphasizes the need for organizations need…
Just another clickbait title: A corpus-driven investigation of negative attitudes toward science on Reddit
A study to analyze the content of and motivations behind negative attitudes toward science without researcher intervention and by utilizing corpus-driven discourse analysis, the source of data from the social content website…
Plurality of opinion, scientific discourse and pseudoscience: an in depth analysis of the Séralini et al. study claiming that Roundup™ Ready corn or the herbicide Roundup™ cause cancer in rat
A study negating the results of another study that was done on the impact of the commercial chemical product: Round Up. The paper discusses why they oppose the results and discuss the…
Fake news as a two-dimensional phenomenon: a framework and research agenda
A review of a number of studies in the aim of defining the term “Fake news” in response to its recent abusive use. In its findings the paper proposes that “Fake News”…
“Climate smart agriculture” is a dangerous hoax
The article is a statement by La Via Campesina, the world’s largest organization representing peasants and small-scale farmers, expressing their stance of rejection towards climate-smart agriculture
Merchants of doubt in the free‐ranging cat conflic
A letter/short aticle that discusses how misinformation about free-ranging cats has affected public ploicy and negtaively impacted biodiversity.
