Natural News is a Facebook hit: Never click on its stories about cancer, vaccines, conspiracies.

Pseudo science is rampant on Facebook and this Slate article peers into Natural News,  which has become a popular source of Facebook posts.  The Slate piece reviews some of the ways the media outlet distorts and mis reports scientific findings.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2014/02/natural_news_is_a_facebook_hit_never_click_on_itsr_stories_about_cancer.html

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Brian Lande

I earned my Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at the University of California—Berkeley in 2010. I am also a police officer in an an East Bay Police Department.  From 2010 till 2012 I was a program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). At DARPA I managed the intersection between Defense and Social Science and managed the Strategic Social Interactions Module (SSIM). The SSIM program was geared toward training development on tact and tactics for service members. I also co-founder of Polis Solutions, a consulting firm specializing in the social factors of human, organizational, and design performance.

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