Medical Misinformation and Social Harm in Non-Science Based Health Practices
Fraudulent, harmful, or at best useless pharmaceutical and therapeutic approaches
developed outside science-based medicine have boomed in recent years, especially due to
the commercialisation of cyberspace. The latter has played a fundamental role in the rise
of false ‘health experts’, and in the creation of filter bubbles and echo chambers that have
contributed to the formation of highly polarised de...
Fraudulent, harmful, or at best useless pharmaceutical and therapeutic approaches
developed outside science-based medicine have boomed in recent years, especially due to
the commercialisation of cyberspace. The latter has played a fundamental role in the rise
of false ‘health experts’, and in the creation of filter bubbles and echo chambers that have
contributed to the formation of highly polarised de...