It has been estimated that the anti-vaccine online industry accumulates annual revenues of $35 million, and that their audience of 62 million followers may be worth upward of a billion dollars a year for the big social media platforms.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl… By John Cook…

Another dodgy nutrition claim doing the rounds on social media – IPAN PhD student Emily Denniss (she/her) reminded users to be wary of influencers offering up dietary advice following her recent study finding lots of untrustworthy advice: deakin.au/4aFdhpj
heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/…

🚨Attention PhD Candidates! Great opportunity below.

Gain media skills and disseminate your work widely in a super supportive environment.

Went deep in the Meta Business Help Centre to find out what they even mean by “political & social issues” to find out what kinds of posts will be or are being suppressed.

It’s not good.

You can now change your settings in Instagram so that it doesn’t censor political content. Only thing is… you can’t, actually.

Vaccine #Misinformation for Profit: Conspiratorial Wellness Influencers & the Monetization of Alternative Health

Study examines how influencers '...promote antivaccination messaging, & weaponize this information to direct their followers to buy products & services.'…

Online health & wellness info is everywhere. How can you distinguish between good advice and pseudoscience grift?

I wrote an explainer for The Conversation Canada on consuming online wellness content. theconversation.com/online-wellnes…
Timothy Caulfield Dr. Jonathan N. Stea Jennifer Gunter Danielle Belardo, MD Christopher Labos

Why is toddler milk so popular? Follow the money writes Dr Jennifer McCann Deakin IPAN Karleen Gribble naomi.hull Dr Anthea Rhodes 👩🏻‍⚕️📚🎙 🍼🥛 theconversation.com/why-is-toddler… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Can #scicomm improve? Always! Listen. Learn. Do better.

But studies show that much of the growing distrust in scientific institutions is drive BY #misinformation (including from state actors).

The distrust is highest among those who embrace misinformation, get their info from…

Combatting #misinformation in women’s health cma.ca/about-us/what-… by Dr. Kathleen Ross via CMAJ

'Women are more likely to experience dismissal or minimization of their symptoms...'

Study on TikTok & gynecological cancer found 'at least 73% of the content as inaccurate.'

Are you 18-65 and living in Australia?
We want to know what you think about different types of foods and how that impacts your choices.

Interested? Take the survey here: bit.ly/4bJffGQ

This is an ad on Twitter from Raspberrygold.com promoting the claim that their 'raspberry gold powders' cured stage 3 lymphoma without any other treatment. How does this get past X ad standards?

Bad influence:700 Instagram posts by nutrition influencers and brands with more than 100,000 followers and found 45 per cent contained inaccurate nutrition information. Here study shows social media unreliable for nutrition advice ipan.deakin.edu.au/2024/02/bad-in…

🚨 Second paper from my PhD is out now!

We found over 700 plant-based meat and dairy alternatives available in Melbourne supermarkets 🧀🥓

Their nutrient content was very different to the options in the Australian Food Composition Database 👩‍💼

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New research on plant-based products Laura Marchese

🧀🥩 249 dairy alts & 455 meat alts identified in supermarkets

📈 Nutrient profiles varied widely

📚 67% of dairy alts & 33% of meat alts not found in the Australian Food Composition Database

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

My brilliant friend and colleague Laura Marchese and her wonderful supervisor Dr Katherine Livingstone wrote a piece for The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand about their research on plant-based foods 🌱🥛🍔

Check it out for some hot tips on how to choose the healthiest options!
theconversation.com/we-looked-at-7…

You might be surprised how salty or fatty some plant-based foods are.

A nutritional audit from Laura Marchese + Dr Katherine Livingstone (@Deakin) found that some plant-based products are so high in salt or saturated fat – we’d struggle to call them “healthy”. theconversation.com/we-looked-at-7…

PhD student Laura Marchese and Dr Katherine Livingstone looked at 700 plant-based foods available in our supermarkets and found some worrying levels of salt and saturated fat 🧂🥓🍔Deakin IPAN Deakin Research theconversation.com/we-looked-at-7… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Are plant-based foods as healthy as we think, or are some too high in salt & fat?

Laura Marchese & Dr Katherine Livingstone from Deakin IPAN have 5 tips to help you choose the healthiest options, based on their recent research.

theconversation.com/we-looked-at-7…

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