Royal Society report says there’s no silver bullet to fix ‘scientific misinformation’
Governments, scientists, journalists and other stakeholders will all need to work together to tackle the problem
There’s no quick and easy way to fix the problem of misinformation in science, argues a new report released by the Royal Society.
As communication technologies have changed, so has the scale and speed with which misinformation spreads, says the report. ‘So the responses to it have to similarly be upgraded,’ report author Frank Kelly, a mathematician at the University of Cambridge, UK, tells Chemistry World. ‘Misinformation has always been present,’ Kelly adds. ‘It’s always been difficult to balance open communication with misinformation.’