Episode 6 ¦ COVID-19, Fake News, Misinformation, and Inappropriate Dissent

10:04, Mon 24 Apr 2023

In the sixth episode of the podcast, Dr. T.Y. Branch at the University of Cologne (CONCEPT) talks with Prof. Dr. de Melo-Martín from Weill Cornell Medicine at Cornell University. Their conversation focuses on normatively inappropriate dissent, or manufactured dissent that falls under the broader category of fake news. One of its hallmarks is that it does not contribute to the epistemic value of the research. de Melo-Martín (and co-author Kristen Intemann) argue that this type of dissent is not easy to identify in a reliable way that would allow us to prevent the harms it causes. So what are the challenges to identifying criteria for normative inappropriate dissent and, what if anything can be done about it?

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