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Rethinking the Internet as an Institution: Shifting Our Idea | 100582

Zeitschrift für Biologie und heutige Welt

ISSN - 2322-3308

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Rethinking the Internet as an Institution: Shifting Our Ideas about the Digital to Combat Medical Disinformation and Distrust

Gina Marie Longo

Despite the medical community’s attempts to provide sound information and research to the public, medical disinformation and antiscience sentiments continue to spread at alarming rates. We must rethink our strategies and approaches to combat these problems successfully. The author recommends a first step: reconceptualizing the Internet as an institution to center it more prominently in medical research and reassessing how patients and providers interact in digital spaces