Study: real facts can beat 'alternative facts' if boosted by inoculation | Dana Nuccitelli

In our current “post-truth” climate, inoculation may provide the key to making facts matter againIt’s fitting that as Donald Trump continues to flirt with anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, inoculation may provide the key to effectively debunking this sort of misinformation.That’s the finding of a new study published in Global Challenges by Sander van der Linden, Anthony Leiserowitz, Seth Rosenthal, and Edward Maibach. The paper tested what’s known as “inoculat