By Laureate Professor Peter Doherty, 360info

In the disinformation war, scientists will fail if their only weapons are critical thinking and a respect for evidence. We must engage more broadly.

All good scientists are sceptics. Scepticism is central to the scientific method, which is basically designed to prevent the most human of all errors: fooling yourself and, in turn, fooling others.

That's why the rules of science, set-up in the 17th century by Britain's National Academy of Science, the Royal Society of London, require that all acceptable scientific work must (after

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