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Online misinformation and disinformation is a pressing challenge and it can have real world consequences including on health messaging and your health directly.
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Mashup Score: 1Why do so many of America’s white evangelicals support Putin? - ABC Religion & Ethics - 7 day(s) ago
Evangelicals make up one quarter of all American voters. Hence the stances they adopt matter to America’s domestic and international politics. Not only did 84 per cent of white evangelicals vote for Donald Trump in 2020, but many evangelical leaders have voiced support for Vladimir Putin for nearly a decade. Why? Those who believe that America’s white evangelicals have embraced Putin due to some fundamentalist proclivity for authoritarianism have the story backwards.
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Mashup Score: 0Behind the fake Dr Karls on Facebook is a murky world of scammers, AI, mystery pills and elusive companies - 10 day(s) ago
Scammers on Facebook and Instagram are using a fake, AI-generated Dr Karl to sell health pills to Australians. When users reported the ads to Meta, the company initially said there was nothing wrong with them.
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A major investigation into the chronic pain industry has uncovered how Australia’s healthcare system is being left open to financial exploitation by medical practitioners.
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Mashup Score: 524 hours, seven mass shootings — as an election looms, what does a day of gun violence look like for the United States? - 21 day(s) ago
A birthday party in Chicago. A convenience store in New York. A public park in Atlanta. In a single day in the United States, all become the scenes of gun violence.
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New data shows women in Australia spend more on pay more out-of-pocket medical costs than men.
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Mashup Score: 6'It's a travesty': Blow for cancer patients as 'last chance' treatment subsidy knocked back again - 1 month(s) ago
Access to the cancer treatment that has put Geoff Nyssen into remission is being held up by concerns over costs, and he fears lives will be lost.
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Mashup Score: 4Aged care workers win up to 28 per cent wage rise - 1 month(s) ago
Aged care workers win in their years-long Fair Work case for a wage rise of between seven and 28 per cent for the entire sector.
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Mashup Score: 6What's the risk of inhaling asbestos from contaminated mulch if you stroll through a park? - 2 month(s) ago
Widespread asbestos contamination of mulch has left residents of Sydney and Canberra worried, but experts say it does not pose a “significant risk”. We unpack how asbestos causes health issues and what kinds of exposure are harmful.
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Mashup Score: 8'It's medical misogyny': Doctors say Medicare bulk billing incentives exacerbating GP gender pay gap - 2 month(s) ago
The peak body for GPs says female doctors are earning less than their male colleagues because they’re more likely to take on appointments for things like mental health and antenatal care, which attract lower bulk billing incentives.
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How does misinformation and disinformation online affect our health? https://t.co/Ecy0QHpvaH via @brianwong_