Global health at risk because of organized disinformation

Bilal Irfan; Shayan Ali; Hana Abbasian; Amelia Fiske

doi:10.1080/13623699.2026.2717677

August 17, 2026Medicine Conflict & Survival

Global health at risk because of organized disinformation

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Assess how organized disinformation campaigns erode the social acceptance of scientific facts and endanger global public health progress.
Perspectives review evaluating the degradation of scientific authority and empirical verification in global health discourse.
Synthesis of recent planetary health alerts regarding coordinated misinformation threats.
Organized disinformation undermines empirical public-health advances and collective disease prevention strategies.
The erosion of public trust in observable reality creates systemic vulnerabilities across global health and environmental governance.

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Editorial analysis demonstrates organized disinformation threatens evidence-based public health systems, highlighting the critical need to restore scientific credibility.

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The instinct to test claims against observable reality underpins every public‑health advance, yet the social licence of fact itself is fraying. The Lancet Planetary Health recently warned that ‘the...

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Irfan et al. (2026) studied this question.

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