Misinformation
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Rameen Masood, Leicester Some time ago, I saw a patient staring silently at an MRI scan of his brain. The consultant pointed carefully at the pale contours on the screen, explaining where the stroke had occurred and what deficits it might leave behind. Yet what struck me most was not the scan itself, but the…
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Iffat Mirza Rashid, Alton The truth exists whether you like it or not. The issue is that if you dislike the truth enough and if you’re powerful enough, it can be buried and new ‘truths’ can be invented. As they say, if you repeat a lie often enough, it eventually becomes the ‘truth’, and indeed,…
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Unfortunately, we see large-scale misinformation everywhere. Unaizah Ahmad and Madiha Cheema discuss how just as there are responsibilities that lie on us as an audience to discern information that we hear, we also have responsibilities when disseminating information as narrators. They look for guidance in principles that Islam teaches us about spreading rumours, gossiping and…
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Dr Amtul Kafi Yadullah Bhunnoo, London In 2024, the planet Earth surpassed the critical threshold of a 1.5 °C increase in average global temperatures above pre-industrial levels for the first time. Climate scientists confirmed this alarming milestone on January 10, 2025, indicating that the world has, at least temporarily, failed to adhere to the targets…
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