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      Online Temptations: COVID-19 and Religious Misinformation in the MENA Region

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      Journal: Social Media + Society
      Publisher: SAGE Publications
      Keywords: religious misinformation, the MENA region, digital religion

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          During the coronavirus pandemic, religious misinformation has been found on social media platforms causing fear, confusion, and polluting the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s online sphere. Exploring cases of religious clickbait in the form of false hadiths and viral religious advice from religious figures entrenched in the MENA’s political elite, this essay discusses how new dynamics for religion in the age of the Internet are contributing to a uniquely regional and religious form of misinformation. This essay looks at how the phenomenon of religious misinformation is a defining characteristic of the MENA’s online sphere, becoming even more acute during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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              Science and Pseudoscience in Traditional Iranian Medicine.

              Kiarash Aramesh (2018)
              The recent efforts for revitalizing traditional Iranian medicine (TIM) have shaped two main streams: The quackery traditional iranian medicine (QTIM) and the academic traditional iranian medicine (ATIM). The QTIM encompasses a wide range of practitioners with various backgrounds who work outside the academic arena and mostly address the public. These practitioners have no solid bases or limited boundaries for their claims. Instead, they rely on making misleading references to the Holy Islamic Scriptures, inducing false hope, claiming miraculous results, appealing to the conspiracy theories, and taking advantage of the public resentment toward some groups of unprofessional healthcare providers. The theories and practices of ATIM, however, can be categorized into two major categories: First, valid and scientific TIM that is aimed to conduct well-designed clinical trials and thereby, supply the evidence-based medicine with new treatments originated in or inspired by TIM. Second, a pseudoscientific part of the current TIM that is based on some obsolete medical theories, especially the medieval humoral medicine, and erroneous accounts of human anatomy, physiology, and physiopathology, mostly adopted from the ancient and medieval medical scripts. TIM has recently established some clinical centers for practicing humoral medicine that is partly pseudoscientific and involves significant risks. This paper suggests that the public health sector has a duty to act against the promulgation of medical superstitions by QTIM and the pseudoscientific medical practices of ATIM, and at the same time, support and promote the valid and potentially beneficial research pursued by ATIM aimed to explore the rich recourses of TIM and thereby enrich the evidence-based medicine.
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                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Soc Media Soc
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Soc Media Soc
                Journal ID (publisher-id): SMS
                Journal ID (hwp): spsms
                Title: Social Media + Society
                Publisher: SAGE Publications (Sage UK: London, England )
                ISSN (Electronic): 2056-3051
                Publication date (Electronic): 30 July 2020
                Publication date Collection: July 2020
                Volume: 6
                Issue: 3
                Electronic Location Identifier: 2056305120948251
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                [1-2056305120948251]University of Oxford, UK
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                [*]Mahsa Alimardani, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 1 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3JS, UK. Email: mahsa.alimardani@ 123456oii.ox.ac.uk
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                Publisher ID: 10.1177_2056305120948251
                DOI: 10.1177/2056305120948251
                PMC ID: 7399566
                PubMed ID: 34192037
                SO-VID: a5151215-9620-41ee-a1a8-5d93a7d8938c
                Copyright © © The Author(s) 2020
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                This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page ( https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

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                Keywords: religious misinformation,the mena region,digital religion
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