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How Misinformation and Missed Chances Stalled Life-Saving Lung Cancer Screening

Summary by American Council on Science and Health…
Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT could have saved tens of thousands of lives — if only we'd listened to the data back in the 1970s. Instead, fear of radiation, obsession with overdiagnosis, and bureaucratic hand-wringing kept this proven life-saving tool out of reach for decades. It’s a case study of how good science can be silenced by flawed assumptions.

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How Misinformation and Missed Chances Stalled Life-Saving Lung Cancer Screening

Lung cancer screening with low-dose CT could have saved tens of thousands of lives — if only we'd listened to the data back in the 1970s. Instead, fear of radiation, obsession with overdiagnosis, and bureaucratic hand-wringing kept this proven life-saving tool out of reach for decades. It’s a case study of how good science can be silenced by flawed assumptions.

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Misinformation: what it is and how to spot it

Earlier this year, Meta announced that they would be getting rid of fact-checking on all of their social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram. With these platforms no longer taking responsibility for protecting their users from misleading and inaccurate information, it is now more important than ever for each of us to know how to sort fact from fiction.

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