Retraction Watch February 19, 2024 Adam Marcus: “A journal is retracting a paper on the purported harms of vaccines against COVID-19 written in part by authors who have had similar work retracted before.” How many times are editors going to publish this guy’s scientific meme content?
Tag: misinformation
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Fraudulent Appeal to Authority. The tactic of citing sources that don’t actually back up a claim.
This ploy utilizes the halo effect, anchoring bias, the mere exposure effect, autopilot thinking, and informational learned helplessness. And it’s fraud.
