Reader Comments Distort Perception of Science News: Parents? No Comment!
People who read news on the internet are swayed by the comments other readers post. The comment from the parenting sphere? Stop cackling at your smartphone. One word: vaccines. Okay, two: autism. In other words, we parents are well aware of the potential for aggressive/aggressively inaccurate comments to sway public opinion. Not breaking news here. Not to those of us at once agitated and yet …