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Dealing with "Pseudoscience" Rumors Needs "True Science" to Reject Rumors

Liu Yunhai

08:45, December 22, 2019 Source: Beijing Youth Daily

After reading your newspaper's comment on the 19th, "Only by fearing science and common sense can we stay away from rumors and demagogues", the author was quite touched. However, in my opinion, to deal with the rumors of "pseudo science", "true science" is also needed to refute the rumors.

The situation of food and science rumors flying all over the world is worrying. Although those who spread rumors maliciously are hateful, it is also worth reflecting that authoritative news has not appeared to refute rumors and true science has not been popularized. When some people transmit rumors, they are more worried about consumption problems and lack of understanding of the real situation. Especially in the environment of food safety crisis of trust, it is difficult for citizens to distinguish the true from the false of food rumors. For their own health, they often prefer to trust them. If the release of clarification information from the official is delayed, the citizens will inevitably have doubts and rumors will spread more and more.

The Food and Drug Administration and the Administration for Industry and Commerce in some places timely disclosed the truth of rumors and released authoritative information, which is worth praising. To purify our circle of food information and scientific knowledge, relevant departments should establish a timely, accurate and unblocked rumor refutation mechanism, so that the circle of friends who refute rumors can win the circle of friends who spread rumors, so that rumors can be hit as soon as they appear, and investigate and deal with the originators of rumors. At present, many places have established a rumor refuting mechanism specifically for food health and scientific common sense issues, which is undoubtedly worth learning from.

(Editor in charge: Li Yiqun, Xu Xiaohua)


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