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For an elaboration of this critique of misinformation studies, see Tucker et al. (2018), Bernstein (2021), and Adler-Bell (2022).
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Goldenberg, M.J. Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start—and Why They Don’t Go Away, by Heidi J. Larson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. J Med Humanit 44, 417–419 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-023-09798-x
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