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NOVEMBER 2020
SCIENTIFICAMERICAN.COM
C E L E B R AT I N G
YEARS
ANCIENT PLAGUES
BIRD EVOLUTION
SPACE WAR
COLLECTIVE MEMORY
CONFRONTING
MISINFORMATION
How to protect society from fear, lies and division
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CONFRONTING
MISINFORMATION
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28 SPECIAL REPORT
30 How to Get Through
This election
By Claire Wardle
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The roots of vaccine mistrust
It’s not just “antiscience” thinking.
By Zakiya Whatley and Titilayo Shodiya
Truth Activism
The history of online protest movements.
By Joan Donovan
Power Play
Can live simulation games help
journalists fight disinformation?
By Jen Schwartz
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CovID-19 misinformation
That Won’t Go Away
The most insidious falsehoods about
the novel coronavirus—and why people
believe them.
By Tanya Lewis
E VO L U T I O N
44 How Birds Branched Out
Modern birds are incredibly diverse. A new study
reveals how they achieved their spectacular
evolutionary success.
By Kate Wong
S PAC E
50 Orbital Aggression
How do we prevent war in space?
By Ann Finkbeiner
NEUROSCIENCE
58 A Disorder of Mind and Brain
A mysterious condition once known as hysteria
is challenging the divide between psychiatry
and neurology.
By Diana Kwon
S O C I O LO G Y
66 The Pandemic We Forgot
The 1918 flu killed millions, then faded from
collective memory. Could the same happen
with COVID-19?
By Scott Hershberger
A R C H A E O LO G Y
GETTY IMAGES (
Blackburnian warbler
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o N THe C ove r
Uncertainty creates conditions for misinformation to
flourish—and flourish it has. As the world continues
to grapple with the pandemic and the U.S. faces a
high-stakes election season, how can society be less
fragile to toxic media manipulation, whether it is from
the highest levels of governments or homegrown?
Illustration by Hanna barczyk.
70 Ancient Plagues Shaped the World
DNA of bacteria and viruses, recovered from
human remains, shows how pathogens helped
to topple empires from Europe to the Americas.
By James P. Close
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