The Wilder Penfield Lecture: How to Share Science and Fight Misinformation
The Wilder Penfield Lecture was inaugurated in 1985 to honour Wilder Penfield, pioneering neurosurgeon and founder of The Neuro.
The 2022 Lecture will be delivered on October 4, 2022 by Laura Helmuth, Editor in Chief of Scientific American.Ìý
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Talk Abstract
The COVID pandemic demonstrated dramatically that science can save lives and that misinformation is literally deadly. Yet we’re exposed to more misinformation, at a faster pace, than at any time in history. Researchers, policy makers, publishers and journalists have been adapting to our new information infrastructure and finding ways to try to amplify knowledge and outcompete nonsense. This lecture will share the current state of science communication, how researchers and clinicians and policymakers can participate in it more effectively, and how everyone can help improve the signal to noise ratio in the world.
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