{"id":624,"date":"2020-06-03T10:14:31","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T15:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/ilinstructors\/?p=624"},"modified":"2020-06-03T10:14:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T15:14:31","slug":"uw-now-series-confronting-covid-19-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/ilinstructors\/2020\/06\/03\/uw-now-series-confronting-covid-19-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"UW Now Series: Confronting COVID-19 Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next week Tuesday, June 9, the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association will host Professor Ajay Sethi for the discussion &#8220;Confronting COVID-19 Misinformation.&#8221; Professor Sethi is an infectious disease epidemiologist and faculty at UW\u2013Madison; he teaches the popular course <em>Conspiracies in Public Health<\/em> at UW. After his talk, Sethi will take questions from the audience via live chat.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, a number of Independent Learning courses have offered students activities that help evaluate the credibility of sources, and this should be an excellent discussion on credible information about a very relevant topic.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, or to sign up for reminder 30 minutes before the event starts, go to:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.allwaysforward.org\/thanks-for-your-interest\/?utm_source=uwnow_0602&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=cc20&amp;utm_content=text\">https:\/\/www.allwaysforward.org\/thanks-for-your-interest\/?utm_source=uwnow_0602&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=cc20&amp;utm_content=text<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week Tuesday, June 9, the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association will host Professor Ajay Sethi for the discussion &#8220;Confronting COVID-19 Misinformation.&#8221; Professor Sethi is an infectious disease epidemiologist and faculty at UW\u2013Madison; he teaches the popular course Conspiracies in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/ilinstructors\/2020\/06\/03\/uw-now-series-confronting-covid-19-misinformation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[87,55],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-madison-events","tag-presentation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/ilinstructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/ilinstructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/ilinstructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/ilinstructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/ilinstructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/ilinstructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/ilinstructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/ilinstructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/ilinstructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.dcs.wisc.edu\/wp\/ilinstructors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}