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Re:The “misinformation problem” seems like misinformation by SquareWheel on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @11:14AM (#30348411)
What if I show you a heavily biased paper in a quack journal with impressive-looking graphs that shows the earth is a flat disc? Is this misinformation?

Most people will not have the experience to discern things like p-hacking and massaged numbers. Having experts call these things out as misinformation seems quite useful to me.

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Re:The “misinformation problem” seems like misinformation by lmm on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @11:36PM (#30356410)
> What if I show you a heavily biased paper in a quack journal with impressive-looking graphs that shows the earth is a flat disc? Is this misinformation?

Maybe. I've not heard people calling "misinformation" in cases like that though.

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