The Scope of Things: Tackling Misinformation, Updated Guidelines to Clinical Trial Reports, More
By Clinical Research Team
May 20, 2025 | This month at the Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz gives you the latest news on a precision medicine initiative in Sweden integrating research with healthcare, newly available cardiometabolic clinical data registries for real world evidence projects, guideline updates on the reporting of clinical trials, AI improving movement disorder movements, and the best-yet biomarker for stroke and dementia risk.
Briony Swire-Thompson, director of the Psychology of Misinformation Lab at Northeastern University Network Science Institute, also joins in to discuss the current misinformation epidemic and how clinical trials and sites can best deal with it. Since the recording of this episode, all NIH and NSF grants studying misinformation have been cut, including Dr. Swire-Thompson’s grant from the National Cancer Institute to study cancer misinformation.
Show Notes
News Roundup
Precision Omics Initiative Sweden (PROMISE)
- Correspondence in Nature Medicine
- Article in Clinical Research News
Cardiometabolic clinical data registries
- Article in Clinical Research News
New CONSORT reporting guidelines
- Article in JAMA
VisionMD for analyzing motor function
- Article in Nature
Best-yet biomarker for stroke and dementia risk
- Article in Diagnostics World News
GUEST
Briony Swire-Thompson, Director, Psychology of Misinformation Lab at Northeastern University Network Science Institute
Briony Swire-Thompson is a cognitive psychologist and Director of the Psychology of Misinformation Lab. She is a professor of psychology and political science at Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute. Her research examines what drives belief in inaccurate information, why people share misinformation online, and how corrections can be designed to maximize impact. Prior to joining the Network Science Institute, she was a doctoral student at the University of Western Australia’s Cognitive Science Laboratories and a Fulbright scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is currently funded by a Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health to study cancer misinformation.
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