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5 Australian COVID experts on receiving abuse and trolling amid the pandemic

  • Written by: Lucy Beaumont, Senior Deputy Section Editor: Health + Medicine
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A survey by the Australian Science Media Centre, published today, found around 20% of the 50 Australian scientists who responded have received threats of physical or sexual violence when speaking about COVID in the media.

Around 62% said they’d been subjected to trolling.

The Centre also worked with science journal Nature to survey...

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