The information-sharing practices within alternative health social media groups makes them important spaces for analyzing and understanding the factors shaping the online spread of alternative health and health science (mis)information. Through interviews and observation of participants in alternative health groups on both Facebook and Reddit, we explore how people use health science information from government, health, and news sources, alternative health information from social media groups, and their own personal experiences and concerns to define informational (dis)trustworthiness. We identify factors that lead participants to (dis)trust health science information and explore how members assess the (dis)trustworthiness of health science information using an alternative epistemology. This alternative epistemology, or “their science,” demonstrates a trust in science unless or until it contradicts members’ experiences, beliefs, contextual concerns, or their own “research” practices.

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他们的真相就在那里：在线健康团体中的科学（不）信任和另类认识论


另类健康社交媒体群体内的信息共享实践使其成为分析和理解影响另类健康和健康科学（错误）信息在线传播因素的重要空间。通过对 Facebook 和 Reddit 上另类健康团体参与者的采访和观察，我们探讨了人们如何使用来自政府、健康和新闻来源的健康科学信息、来自社交媒体团体的另类健康信息以及他们自己的个人经历和担忧来定义信息的可信度（不可信度）。我们确定了导致参与者不信任健康科学信息的因素，并探讨成员如何使用替代认识论评估健康科学信息的可信度。这种另类认识论，或“他们的科学”，表明了对科学的信任，除非或直到它与成员的经验、信仰、背景关注或他们自己的“研究”实践相矛盾。