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Greg Fell

@felly500.bsky.social
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DPH Sheffield Council. President ADPHUK. Barely active climber and below average cyclist. Fond of - 80s thrash metal. Blog - gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com

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Sharon White OBE @sharonwhite61.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Once found some ‘funny PH monies’ which helped care home children grow their own veg. 20yrs on & 1 of these lads recognised & stopped me ‘hi nurse,do you remember them sprouts! When I was serving time I learned to cook em; I’m now a chef in a young offenders institute….’ #publichealth #trajectory
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Action on commercial gambling—a local government case study from Great Britain TLDR 1. Important judgement in District Court. Relevant to land based gambling licencing process. 2. seek to permit is not a duty.
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Oh I'd missed this first time Thanks Deb for pointing it out Egregious graph crimes!!
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Grant Ennis @grantennis.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
"Access, not movement per se, should be the overarching goal of transportation policy" - @gregshill.com @jonathanlevin13.bsky.social @urbantruth.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social @felly500.bsky.social @sethlaj.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social @keawilson.bsky.social @activetowns.bsky.social
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Transportation for the Abundant Society
<p><span>A growing chorus known as the abundance movement seeks to overcome artificial scarcity in the built environment—especially housing. Yet this movement’s
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Happy 40th birthday If you know, you know
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Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) @adphuk.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Following his keynote speech at this week's @local.gov.uk/ADPH public health conference, ADPH President @felly500.bsky.social writes about the pivotal role local government has in improving the nation's health & why that isn't the same as reducing demand on healthcare. 👀 Read now ➡️ bit.ly/4aUc7s2
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Framing walking and bike riding Message guide More amazing stuff from VicHealth www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/sites/defaul...
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David Bocking @bbobillsmothers.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Latest What's On Out There 🌳🚶🏽🚴🏻🏃🏽🐞🦉listings, links & news for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity - abitblackoverbillsmothers.substack.com/p/whats-on-o...
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What's On Out There? 🚶🏽🦫🏃🏽🦉🚴🏻 Winter 2026
The news, links and listings post for Sheffield and the northern Peak District.
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
2 posts in my team Public Health Practitioner (Behavioural science, poverty, and inclusion health) G9. Closes 27th Feb ce0369li.webitrent.com/ce0369li_web... Health Improvement Officer (Health Protection, poverty, and health inclusion) G7. Closes 22nd Feb. ce0369li.webitrent.com/ce0369li_web...
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
IEA questions on who funds a charity Ironyometer is redlining .......
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
what is driving hospital activity growth – gizmos and “innovation” not “ageing” and demographics. short, slightly ranty, post gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/w...
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what is driving hospital activity growth – gizmos and “innovation” not “ageing” and demographics.
short, slightly ranty, post saw this Causes of hospital activity growth : “growth in hospital activity was mostly driven by residual (R) factors, followed by population growth (P). Age-s…
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Emma Wilkinson @emmajourno.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Thanks to @felly500.bsky.social for chatting to me about how Sheffield's public health team successfully challenged proposals for a new McDonald's drive through in an area with multiple schools, sports facilities, playgrounds and other places children hang out. www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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Child obesity: McDonald’s drive-through plan rejected by Sheffield Council on health grounds
Public health officials in Sheffield have successfully blocked plans for a new McDonald’s drive-through restaurant after arguing that it would undermine efforts to tackle child obesity. Sheffield Cou...
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Kate Ardern@KateAlvanley @ardernkate.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Excellent analysis from @jamestplunkett.bsky.social couldn’t agree more👏👏👏👏
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
An in surprise moment of the week …… EPA to stop putting price on human health benefits for air pollution and focus on cost to industry www.bmj.com/content/392/... Experts told The BMJ the change will bias decisions towards “weaker protections and dirtier air.”
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Air pollution: EPA to stop putting price on human health benefits and focus on cost to industry
Human health will no longer be factored into US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cost-benefit calculations of air pollution. Instead, costs to industry will be the EPA’s focus when assessing the...
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Scott Lloyd @scottylloyd1979.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
The @transporthealth.bsky.social – in partnership with the @nihrsphr.bsky.social – have organised a series of webinars on transport and health. These webinars are open to all colleagues – please register via the appropriate link below.
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a busy city street with a sign that says no parking on it
ALT: a busy city street with a sign that says no parking on it
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Somehow the "metal Christmas covers" playlist on Spotify has defaulted to old skool Maiden Algorithms are genuinely magic
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/12/21/a... Advertising Works a case study in nicotine addiction
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Advertising Works a case study in nicotine addiction
See this paper Nicotine pouch use has risen in Great Britain, primarily driven by sharp increases among young people and the Guardian headline – Gen Z behind jump in use of oral nicotine pouc…
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
NHS gets 'game-changing' robot assistants to slash waiting times and save millions www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2148... I do so hope some serious "strategic commissioning" thought has been given to this one.....
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Grant Ennis @grantennis.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This headline…. what a way to generation-blame for industry malfeasance @felly500.bsky.social
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Nicotine pouch use has risen in Great Britain, primarily driven by sharp increases among young people, especially young men....... and aggressive marketing......
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Oral nicotine pouch use in Great Britain: a repeat cross-sectional study, 2020–25
Nicotine pouch use has risen in Great Britain, primarily driven by sharp increases among young people, especially young men. Most users also smoked or vaped, and a growing proportion of smokers used p...
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Royal Society for Public Health @rsph.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Find out more and read the full list here 👇 www.rsph.org.uk/insights/the...
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The Top 10 Public Health Achievements of the 21st Century
We take a look back at the top public health achievements that have improved lives across the globe over the past 25 years.
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Association of Directors of Public Health (ADPH) @adphuk.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Great round up of successful public health interventions from @rsph.bsky.social ⬇️ In his latest blog, ADPH President @felly500.bsky.social explores what makes public health success stories work, and what lessons we can learn from them. 👀➡️ www.adph.org.uk/2025/11/public-healths-greatest-hits/
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Mis and dis information. Notes for PH professionals gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/m... 1. Why it matters. Direct and indirect harm 2. Why it happens 3. It's not new 4. How it happens 5. Tactics to combat. Individual and systemic
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Mis and dis information. Notes for PH professionals gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/m... 1. Why it matters. Direct and indirect harm 2. Why it happens 3. It's not new 4. How it happens 5. Tactics to combat. Individual and systemic
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Rare Earth - transport. Cleaner, cheaper, faster www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Worth a listen Good reframing of common objections by Chris
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Rare Earth - City Transport: Faster, Cheaper, Greener - BBC Sounds
Tom Heap and Helen Czerski examine how we get around our towns and cities.
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Dark PR - applied to roads, cars and driving Discourse and how it is shaped has very real public policy (& thus outcome) consequences Thus a v legit target for those seeking better outcomes www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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David Buck @davidjbuck.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Lessons from COVID www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
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Directors Of Public Health And The Covid-19 Pandemic: 'A Year Like No Other' | The King's Fund
Directors of public health have had a unique viewpoint during the Covid-19 pandemic and have been at the forefront of making complex decisions about their local populations. Our new report explores th...
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
www.bmj.com/content/391/... An effective public health response to the next pandemic demands learning from past mistakes Public health needs proper funding, effective lines of communication, and support for its workforce to respond to future emergencies @tracyd-ph.bsky.social @fphuk.bsky.social
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An effective public health response to the next pandemic demands learning from past mistakes
Public health needs proper funding, effective lines of communication, and support for its workforce to respond to future emergencies, writes Tracy Daszkiewicz The UK covid-19 inquiry’s second report...
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Teaching policy actors about the methods and tactics of food industry to shape policy... ..... influences how they act with to industry actors trying to shape policy Great bit of research this academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
www.sciencedirect.com:5037/science/arti... 10 yr analysis of growth of harmful product industries on high streets split by income helpful analysis More deprived areas were more likely to gain health harming amenities. More deprived areas were more likely to lose health conducive amenities
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Voters in Hamburg have rejected universal basic income. Many economists would agree with them theconversation.com/voters-in-ha...
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Voters in Hamburg have rejected universal basic income. Many economists would agree with them
Voters in the German city of Hamburg recently rejected the idea of a free payment for all residents.
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Advertising is a vector of harm for gambling, alcohol & tobacco harm, just as mosquitoes are a vector of harm for harm from malaria discuss.
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Chris Packham being Radical. best lines = 1. focus on production and supply chains (REDUCE), not expectations on consumers & demand (RECYCLE). 2. Air quality, ULEZ and net zero has been made politically toxic by those who stand to profit from the status quo
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Radical with Amol Rajan - A War on Climate Change: Are Environmental Activists Losing The Fight? (Chris Packham) - BBC Sounds
Chris Packham says conservationists like him have not done enough to protect nature.
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2022/09/25/n... arguments about the nanny state. Ten simple steps for woke snowflakes
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nanny state name calling. A routemap
arguments about the nanny state. Ten simple steps for woke snowflakes this one is a reprise of previous work with some new spins. Thanks to May van Schalkwyk for some of these thoughts. What is it …
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... evidence does not glide into policy like a fairy godmother with a wand. It enters a world of political interests, institutional routines, cognitive shortcuts, and competing narratives
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The Fairy Godmother—and Her Warts - Carol H. Weiss, Erin Murphy-Graham, Anthony Petrosino, Allison G. Gandhi, 2008
Evaluators sometimes wish for a Fairy Godmother who would make decision makers pay attention to evaluation findings when choosing programs to implement. The U.S...
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Exceptionally interesting paper from John and team Underscores one more reason why alcohol price matters to consumtion & eventually harm onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Examining changes in the prevalence of cost‐motivated alcohol reduction attempts in the context of a cost‐of‐living crisis and alcohol duty reforms: A population survey of risky drinkers in Great Britain, 2021–2024
Background and aims Affordability of alcohol is a key driver of consumption. The cost-of-living crisis in Great Britain has been putting pressure on household budgets since late 2021. In addition, t...
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
GLP-1 receptor agonists: a wake-up call for the food system, not a silver bullet for obesity. www.health.org.uk/features-and... real legacy could be as a catalyst for the systemic reformulation.
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Multi cancer detection tests Till we've better evidence definitely more hype than hope in my view Good show @debscohen.bsky.social
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File on 4 Investigates - Multi-Cancer Testing - Hype or Hope? - BBC Sounds
Could multi-cancer detection tests help improve earlier diagnosis for NHS patients?
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Oh wow Rutger Bregman - aka Davos tax man- is BACK with a vengeance First installment is excellent
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The Reith Lectures - Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution - 1. A Time of Monsters - BBC Sounds
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman delivers his first BBC Reith Lecture: Moral Revolution.
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
www.bmj.com/content/391/... In other news- Ican find no evidence to refute that aliens are watching my every move, thus I conclude that aliens are watching my every move ............
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CDC website altered to suggest possible link between vaccines and autism
New guidance published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggesting vaccines may cause autism has been slammed by medical and autism advocacy groups. A CDC webpage which prev...
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... The man who sold the world As pertinent today as it was in 1997
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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford - Kyoto: The Battle that Defined Climate Politics - with Joe Robertson - BBC Sounds
Tim is joined by playwright Joe Robertson to discuss Kyoto.
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Sander van der Linden on misinfo - Rapid repetition to ensire wide spread - Pre bunking & Psych inoculation - use of political power to maintain ability to spread misinfo in name of free speech - questioning the motives & credibility of those who study misinfo open.spotify.com/episode/0eqK...
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Laura Angus #PharmSky 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @lauraangus.pharmsky.app · 22/11/2025
I care! And so does the @bmj.com DTB open.spotify.com/episode/1e3D...
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Medicines - but at what cost, direct penicillin allergy challenge, and prescribing mistakes
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Drug industry payments to APPGs doi.org/10.1136/bmj.... concerns over transparency and “disjointed disclosure” mechanisms part of a “web of influence” strategy secretariats, which are often run by industry bodies, PR consultancies, and health charities- connections with 40 pharma companies.
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Drug industry payments to groups of influential MPs—“the next great parliamentary scandal?”
MPs and peers must act urgently to avert potential scandal from drug industry payments and connections to parliamentary interest groups, researchers have said. A new study of pharmaceutical firms’ de...
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
www.doctors.net.uk/news/caving-... just saying.......... nobody really cares about detail thesedays, or experts. But Karl really IS an expert who has done the detail.
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The UK caving to pressure to pay more for drugs will cost lives
Increasing NHS drug costs would cause thousands of preventable deaths, widen health inequalities and harm the British economy – whilst doing nothing to encourage genuine life sciences investment, argu...
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Seen on a billboard I beg to differ: uk.news.yahoo.com/inside-life-...
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/p... Population Health Management and risk stratification "....all models are wrong, some are useful. It appears that these models are not necessarily wrong, they just aren’t useful."
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Population Health Management and risk stratification
A decade ago, I used to be a believer in this & wrote a load of stuff on it – eg on segmentation. Since then I’ve gone agnostic and am now a complete non believer. It’s a dist…
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/p... Population Health Management and risk stratification "....all models are wrong, some are useful. It appears that these models are not necessarily wrong, they just aren’t useful."
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Population Health Management and risk stratification
A decade ago, I used to be a believer in this & wrote a load of stuff on it – eg on segmentation. Since then I’ve gone agnostic and am now a complete non believer. It’s a dist…
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
gregfellpublichealth.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/p... Population Health Management and risk stratification From a believer to a non believer
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Population Health Management and risk stratification
A decade ago, I used to be a believer in this & wrote a load of stuff on it – eg on segmentation. Since then I’ve gone agnostic and am now a complete non believer. It’s a dist…
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Misinformation review focuses on: -role of disinformation for profit - antiscience policy - how & why disinfo is increasing Interventions: - greater focus on framing - strategies for “prebunking” of predictable narratives - denormalization - countermarketing
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The Politics and Profit of Disinformation in Public Health
Disinformation is a coordinated or deliberate effort to knowingly circulate misinformation (i.e., false information) to gain money, power, or reputation. While most public health research has focused ...
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