Mis- & Disinformation Resources

Quick reads:

• Misinformation, disinformation, & malinformation (Government Resource, Ontario County, NY)

• Misinformation, disinformation, & malinformation: A guide (Princeton Library)

Scholarly resources:

• Critical disinformation studies: History, power, and politics  (Kuo & Marwick, 2021)

• Defining and measuring scientific misinformation (Southwell et al., 2022)

• Systematic literature review on the spread of health-related misinformation on social media (Wang et al., 2019)

• The illusory truth effect: A review of how repetition increases belief in misinformation (Udry & Barber, 2024)

• The next infodemic: Abortion misinformation (Pogoto et al., 2024)

Quick reads:

• Contemporary Comstockery: Legal restrictions on medication abortion (Thompson & O’Donnell, 2022)

• The violent history of the anti-abortion movement (Southern Poverty Law Center)

• They’re doctors. They’re also incredibly effective—and dangerous—anti-abortion activists. (Mother Jones)

• Junk science is cited in abortion ban cases. Researchers are fighting the ‘fatally flawed’ works (The Guardian)

• 7 days inside an anti-abortion summer camp training the next generation of activists (VICE)

Scholarly resources:

• Deception by obfuscation: Studnicki et al.’s retracted longitudinal cohort study of emergency room utilization following abortion (Upadhyay & Atkins, 2024)

Quick reads:

• Key dates in mifepristone’s history (Ohio Capital Journal)

• The forgotten—and incredibly important—history of the abortion pill (Mother Jones)

Scholarly resources:

• Abortion: Termination of early pregnancy with RU-486 (Mifepristone) (Congressional Research Service)

Quick reads:

• Mifepristone: questions and answers with Rollins researchers (Rollins School of Public Health)

• Analysis of medication abortion risk and the FDA report “Mifepristone US post-marketing adverse events summary through 12/31/2022.” (Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health)

Scholarly resources:

• Incidence of emergency department visits and complications after abortion (Upadhyay et al., 2015)

• Aligning mifepristone regulation with evidence: Driving policy change using 15 years of excellent safety data (Cleland & Smith, 2015)

• The growing importance of self-managed and telemedicine abortion in the United States: Medically safe, but legal risk remains (Skuster & Moseson, 2022)

• Effectiveness and safety of telehealth medication abortion in the USA (Upadhyay et al., 2024)

• Brief of over 300 reproductive health researchers as amici curiae in support of petitioners, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (2024)

Scholarly resources:

• The history of abortion law in the United States (Our Bodies Ourselves)

• Medication abortion exceptionalism (Donley, 2022)

• Understanding the impacts of the Supreme Court case FDA v Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (Espey et al., 2024)