Misinformation - Rationale Magazine

07 Apr

How to improve your critical thinking skills

07/04/2025
By Peter Ellerton
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There is a Fox News headline that goes like this: 'Transgender female runner who beat 14,000 women at London Marathon offers to ...

30 Jan

Science & Health

Separating facts from fake news in the realm of health and nutrition

The COVID-19 pandemic illuminated a vast landscape of misinformation about many topics, science and health chief among them

28 Nov

Law & Politics

Why regulating speech is an ethical minefield

28/11/2024
By Hugh Breakey
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Misinformation and disinformation are major concerns worldwide. The federal government’s misinformation bill aimed to res...

13 Aug

Feature series, Science & Health

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...

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