Sam Boland: Trans healthcare and the age of contested knowledge
In some cases, contested knowledge can be incredibly harmful
Shasa Shame, Shadow Frost, and Niall Keane, all from Dublin, at a protest earlier this month calling for better healthcare for trans people. Pictures: RollingNews.ie
We are living through an unprecedented age of contested knowledge, so much so we have to have not one but two words for such contested knowledge — misinformation and disinformation.
The American Psychology Association defines the terms thusly: "Misinformation is false or inaccurate information — getting the facts wrong. Disinformation is false information which is deliberately intended to mislead — intentionally misstating the facts."
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