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Author: Faadiel Essop
Published: 06/05/2021
We need “inoculations against fake news to help safeguard the future of science in a post-truth world, writes Prof Faadiel Essop (Department of Physiological Sciences / Centre for Cardio-metabolic Research in Africa) in an opinion piece for
Daily Maverick (5 May).
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Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored - Aldous Huxley.
The forwarded WhatsApp message on my phone boldly proclaimed that a post-mortem in Russia revealed that a radiation-exposed bacterium (and not the SARS-CoV-2 virus) is responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic and “causes human death by coagulation in the blood . The message triggered a tinge of despair as I realised that the plethora of similar, fake social media postings together with the widely reported (very rare) blood clotting side-effects of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine will only further fuel the burgeoning