MythInformed Science

Misinformation isn’t just a problem for governments and health systems. For all kinds of organisations, misinformation erodes trust, derails communication strategies, and undermines hard-won credibility. It can also drive a wedge between families and friends. MythInformed Science is for leaders and communicators on the front lines of that fight. Each episode, hosts Jamie Brehaut and Justin Presseau sit down with leading experts to have conversations about misinformation: where it comes from, how it spreads, and what actually works to counter it. Jamie is a psychologist focusing on implementation science, the science of effecting real change in healthcare systems. Justin is basically the same thing, but a newer, better-looking model. Both are senior scientists at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and professors in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa. This show talks to top people w

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  The Target Is Trust | Jennifer Irish

  Jul 9, 202644 minS0

  <p>In June 2024, a major water main ruptured in Calgary, and some residents refused to believe it was happening. Jennifer Irish, a principal at Pendulum Geopolitical Advisory, founding director of the University of Ottawa's Information Integrity Lab, and a former Canadian diplomat and national security executive, points to it as a sign of something larger. When people can no longer tell what is fact from what is not, she argues, they lose the ability to make informed decisions about their communities, their democracy, and their own health.</p><p>The conversation covers what Irish calls an age of industrialized amplification...

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  The Target Is Trust | Jennifer Irish

  Jul 9, 202644 min

  In June 2024, a major water main ruptured in Calgary, and some residents refused to believe it was happening. Jennifer Irish, a principal at Pendulum Geopolitical Advisory, founding director of the University of Ottawa's Information Integrity Lab, and a former Canadian diplomat and national security executive, points to it as a sign of something larger. When people can no longer tell what is fact from what is not, she argues, they lose the ability to make informed decisions about their communities, their democracy, and their own health. The conversation covers what Irish calls an age of industrialized amplification and distortion of narratives, in which hostile state actors work to sow discord and erode public trust. That erosion is the real damage. These campaigns take hold because of a distrust in government that already exists, and rather than merely exploit it, they deepen it, to the point that a public inquiry has named disinformation an existential threat to democracy.

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  Empathy first, facts later | Dr. Kumanan Wilson

  Jun 25, 202638 minS0

  <p>When someone rejects the evidence, the instinct is to hit back with better facts. Dr. Kumanan Wilson, a general internal medicine specialist who has spent two decades studying vaccine hesitancy, says that move can backfire. He recalls trying to change naturopathic students' minds with hard data and a polio survivor's story, and watching the room turn more anti-vaccine. When a belief is tied to identity, arguing against it makes people dig in their heels, and they can reject the messenger, as well as the message.</p><p>The conversation makes the case that the way through is empathy and...

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  Empathy first, facts later | Dr. Kumanan Wilson

  Jun 25, 202638 min

  When someone rejects the evidence, the instinct is to hit back with better facts. Dr. Kumanan Wilson, a general internal medicine specialist who has spent two decades studying vaccine hesitancy, says that move can backfire. He recalls trying to change naturopathic students' minds with hard data and a polio survivor's story, and watching the room turn more anti-vaccine. When a belief is tied to identity, arguing against it makes people dig in their heels, and they can reject the messenger, as well as the message. The conversation makes the case that the way through is empathy and meeting people where they are, the approach that reached vaccine-hesitant communities and the convoy protesters he visited. It closes on an example that challenges what ‘misinformation’ is. During COVID, the people who doubted vaccines would halt transmission were dismissed as misinformed, but given the speed with which variants emerged, in some ways they were right. When defined carefully in terms of best evidence at the time, what counts as ‘misinformation’ can change; and that idea requires careful and empathetic communication.

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  AI Is Not Magic | Dr. Douglas Manuel

  Jun 11, 202635 minS0

  <p>AI in healthcare is often talked about as something magical. Dr. Douglas Manuel, a family and public health physician, senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, and organizer of Ottawa's recent symposium on AI in health research, pushes back on that. AI is a tool, he argues, an instrument like the thermometer or the blood pressure cuff. A revolution, yes, but medicine has been absorbing new instruments for two thousand years, and like all of them, this one has to be calibrated.</p><p>The conversation covers why AI scribes have been adopted faster than anything Manuel has...

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