H. Colleen Sinclair

1 week ago | theconversation.com | H. Colleen Sinclair

Research on misinformation and disinformation has become the latest casualty of the Trump administration’s restructuring of federal research priorities. Following President Donald Trump’s executive order on “ending federal censorship,” the National Science Foundation canceled hundreds of grants that supported research on misinformation and disinformation. Misinformation refers to misleading narratives shared by people unaware that content is false.

1 week ago | caledonianrecord.com | H. Colleen Sinclair

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1 month ago | yahoo.com | H. Colleen Sinclair

Conspiracy theories are everywhere, and they can involve just about anything. People believe false conspiracy theories for a wide range of reasons – including the fact that there are real conspiracies, like efforts by the Sackler family to profit by concealing the addictiveness of oxycontin at the cost of countless American lives. The extreme consequences of unfounded conspiratorial beliefs could be seen on the staircases of the U.S. Capitol on Jan.

1 month ago | nz.news.yahoo.com | H. Colleen Sinclair

Conspiracy theories are everywhere, and they can involve just about anything. People believe false conspiracy theories for a wide range of reasons – including the fact that there are real conspiracies, like efforts by the Sackler family to profit by concealing the addictiveness of oxycontin at the cost of countless American lives. The extreme consequences of unfounded conspiratorial beliefs could be seen on the staircases of the U.S. Capitol on Jan.

Mar 29, 2025 | sanantonioreport.org | H. Colleen Sinclair

When I taught research methods to undergraduates, I would start by asking whether anyone in the class had $20. Though harder to come by thanks to digital payment options, inevitably, someone would produce a $20 bill. I would then ask whether they knew how the bill came to look the way it does. Students would take guesses — often rooted in history and counterfeiting concerns.