Shocked by the COVID-19 infodemic, several efforts have launched to gather researchers’ consensus views, with the hope of improving public debate and policymaking.
, is the work of Daniele Fanelli, a metascientist at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK. Both projects are interested in establishing degrees of consensus, but will survey the views of much smaller groups of experts, at least at first.
Working on the principle that people still trust members of professional organizations, in April, Sweet’s group asked physician members of the British Columbia infectious-diseases and critical-care societies about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. After gathering responses to questions, the project plans to use the results to generate videos and other social-media-friendly content, with the idea of combating misinformation. “It then has the ability to go viral, just like all the misinformation out there,” Sweet says.. “So much of what you see on social media and the Internet conflicts [with] what public institutions are telling us,” she says in the video. “Many people don’t know what to believe, but there are new solutions coming.
Fanelli had the idea for his site after seeing how claims of scientific consensus were used to stifle debate during the pandemic. Specifically, he says, he did not like the way in which questions on the origins of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, and whether it could have escaped from a laboratory, were dismissed by many high-profile voices as unscientific and off-limits.
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