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How to read the news like a scientist Overwhelmed by your news feed? Use tools from science to evaluate what's true and what's fake, suggests researcher Emma Frans.
In our daily reading, we encounter all kinds of claims. Depending on the news story and the week, Chinese imports, coffee, large-cap stocks, snacking, and eggs should be embraced - or they should be avoided altogether. What's a person to do when bombarded with confusing, contradictory information?
Try thinking like a scientist, says Emma Frans, who's an epidemiology and psychiatry researcher at Oxford University in the UK and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden.
"In present times, our risk of being fooled is especially high," she says. There are two main factors at play: "Disinformation spreads like wildfire in social media," she adds, "and when it comes to news reporting, sometimes it is more important for journalists to be fast than accurate."
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