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SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
Volume 42, Issue 5, Pages 562-585Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1075547020953603
Keywords
framing; COVID-19; conspiracies; public opinion
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Conspiracy theories have flourished about the origins of a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that causes an acute respiratory syndrome (coronavirus disease 2019 [COVID-19]) in humans. This article reports the results from a study that evaluates the impact of exposure to framed messages about the origins of COVID-19. We tested four hypotheses: two focusing on its origins as either zoonotic or human-engineered and two concerning the impacts of origin beliefs on the desire to penalize China or support increased funding for biomedical research. The results accentuate the importance of finding ways to combat the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories related to this global pandemic.
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