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ArticleJournal of experimental psychology. General2024

Discrediting health disinformation sources: Advantages of highlighting low expertise.

Briony Swire-Thompson, Kristen Kilgallen, Mitch Dobbs, Jacob Bodenger, John Wihbey, Skyler Johnson

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Article in Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. The effects of social media criticism against public health institutions on trust, emotions, and social media engagement.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Briony Swire-ThompsonNetwork Science Institute, Northeastern University.ORCID 0000-0001-7464-8940
Kristen KilgallenNetwork Science Institute, Northeastern University.
Mitch DobbsNetwork Science Institute, Northeastern University.
Jacob BodengerNetwork Science Institute, Northeastern University.
John WihbeyDepartment of Journalism, Northeastern University.
Skyler JohnsonDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Huntsman Cancer Hospital, University of Utah.

Funding

Cancer misinformation on social media and its correctionR00CA248720 · NCI · NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY · PI SWIRE-THOMPSON, BRIONY · 2023 to 2024
$494k
National Institutes of Health National Cancer InstituteNCI NIH HHS R00 CA248720
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Disinformation is false information spread intentionally, and it is particularly harmful for public health. We conducted three preregistered experiments (

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PMID39235890
PMCPMC11378866

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