Anti-science speech

disinformation as a strategy for attacking scientific production

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https://doi.org/10.5216/revufg.v20.66366

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the attacks suffered on social networks by the modeling workgroup of COVID-19 from the Federal University of Goiás, due to the intermittent closure of non-essential activities by the government of the State. From a qualitative analysis, focusing on anti-science discourse, we sought to understand how fake news and disinformation raised by the sectors that were against the closure of commercial activities, contributed to the disqualification of the role of science and to the attempt to discredit in relation to the social function of the public university. It was concluded, through analysis, that the economic grid tends to overlap with other phenomena of social life, which are not merely economic phenomena, as in this case, collective health.

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Leonardo Luiz de Souza Rezio, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil, leonardorezio@ufg.br

PhD student of the Interdisciplinary PostGraduate Program in Human Rights at the Federal University of Goiás (PPGIDH / UFG); Master in Human Rights from UFG (PPGIDH / UFG); Director of Institutional Advertising at the Communication Department of UFG (SECOM / UFG).

Magno Luiz Medeiros da Silva , Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil, magno@ufg.br

PhD in Education from the Faculty of Education of the University of São Paulo; Full Professor at the Faculty of Information and Communication at the Federal University of Goiás (FIC / UFG); professor at the Postgraduate Program in Communication and the Interdisciplinary PostGraduate Program in Human Rights at UFG.

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Published

2020-12-31

How to Cite

REZIO, L. L. de S.; SILVA , M. L. M. da. Anti-science speech: disinformation as a strategy for attacking scientific production. Revista UFG, Goiânia, v. 20, n. 26, 2020. DOI: 10.5216/revufg.v20.66366. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/revistaufg/article/view/66366. Acesso em: 23 nov. 2024.

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Vol. 20 (2020): Revista UFG

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Dossiê: o discurso anti-ciência nas redes sociais na internet

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