Misinformation - Rationale Magazine

13 Aug

From my brush with breast cancer, I know the value of science – and the need to defend it – more than ever

This article is part of our ‘Celebrate Science’ feature series to mark National Science Week, 10-18 August 2024. Many people are no...

16 May

Science & Health

Biology by the book

16/05/2024
By Ric Streatfield
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Back in 1987, around the beginnings of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Australia, as a Senior Medical Officer I had volunteered to do a Queens...

09 Apr

Philosophy & Psychology

The psychology behind irrational opinions

Most people, at one time or another, act foolishly. However, truly ignorant individuals exhibit a lack of introspection and stubbornly ...

26 Feb

Philosophy & Psychology

How to help people get out of misinformation rabbit holes

02/03/2024
By Emily Booth
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As misinformation and radicalisation rise, it’s tempting to look for something to blame: the internet, social media personalities, sens...

20 Feb

Science & Health

How to inoculate against climate misinformation

Last year, the world experienced the hottest day ever recorded, as we endured the first year where temperatures were 1.5°C warme...

30 Oct

Ethics & Religion

Truth and consequences in a world of liars

30/10/2023
By Geoffrey Barker
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The world watches horrified as bombs and rockets kill thousands and reduce Ukraine and Gaza to smoking rubble. Australians agonise over...

28 Aug

Law & Politics

The new threat to freedom of expression

30/08/2023
By David James
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The federal government is moving to ban what it calls ‘disinformation’ and ‘misinformation’ in an initiative similar to legislative mov...

30 Jul

Law & Politics

Misinformation and the path to deeper polarisation

30/07/2023
By Shasha Wang
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Many Australians believe the nation is more politically polarised and divided today than in the past. It’s a divide that has lon...

17 Feb

Law & Politics

The spread of QAnon beyond the United States

17/02/2023
By Robert Dover
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The name crops up all over the place, but many people have no real understanding of what QAnon is, or why an estimated 22 per cent o...

05 Feb

Education

The need to learn ‘critical ignoring’

The web is an informational paradise and a hellscape at the same time. A boundless wealth of high-quality information is available a...

31 Jan

History

Holocaust remembrance: We must beware of well-intentioned mythmaking

In ancient Rome, the saeculum, or 'the age', was the span of living memory, the telling of an event passed down from the oldest to the ...

18 Jan

Feature series, Philosophy & Psychology

The antidote to arrogance: How to be wrong the right way

This article is part of our ‘From the vault’ series of summer reading. It was originally published in the June 2020 edition of Australi...

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