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Wayne Glines, Health Physics News Contributing Editor

The National Academies Board on Science Education has released the report Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science.

Our current information ecosystem makes it easier for misinformation about science to spread and harder for people to figure out what is scientifically accurate. Improving access to high-quality scientific information can fill information voids that exist for topics of interest to people, reducing risks of exposure to and uptake of misinformation about science. Misinformation is commonly perceived as a matter of bad actors maliciously misleading the public, but misinformation about science arises both intentionally and inadvertently and from a wide range of sources.

More information about this project, including the link to download the report, can be found here.