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Researchers and publishers influence how information is presented by using imagery, statistics and sometimes celebrities to make people feel that what is in their book, research, or product is the best. Research has shown that who shares or writes an article determines whether people will trust it. (Media Insight Project, 2017) This can lead to monetary motivations, which leads to lies and propaganda that can be harmful to the public and the consumer. Other motivations can be to raise awareness for a cause but that can still be unsupported claims. A big example is: Vaccinations cause autism. Researchers linked the trend of celebrities such as the current president and others stating that they knew a child whom after vaccination got autism. (Sheik, 2018) Although there has been no significant medical data to prove this search results linking autism to vaccines increased dramatically.
It is important to evaluate sources for credibility to ensure knowledge is accurate and repeatable in the case of science. If you do not evaluate you could form a hypothesis or write a research paper that ends up being plagiarism or rejected based on unproven facts. It can also make you look uneducated to your peers who are using credible sources.
References:
Media Insight Project. (2017) “Who shared it? How Americans determine what news to trust on
social media” Retrieved from https://www.americanpressinstitute.org/publications/reports/survey- research/trust-social-media/.
Sheikh, S. Swetlik, C. & Wilson, R. (2018) Just Google It’ – The Effect of Media Events on
Patterns of Public Interest in the ‘Vaccines Cause Autism’ Fallacy from 2004–2017
Retrieved from http://n.neurology.org/content/90/15_Supplement/P2.182
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