🔴 **Google allows advertisers to target the sensitive informational queries of cancer patients**
_"Advertisers mimicked the sensitive queries of cancer patients to target them with their marketing using Google’s keyword-matching feature. In 2023, 20,035 unique keywords emulated Google searches seeking information on cancer prognosis, alternative treatments, accessing treatment, treatment options, diagnosis, specific cancers, and late-stage cancer._
_The Google tools used by alternative cancer clinics exploit users’ searches for information and give prominence to websites promoting treatment unsupported by scientific evidence."_
Zenone, M., Marcon, A., Kenworthy, N., van Schalkwyk, M., Caulfield, T., Hartwell, G., & Maani, N. (2024). Google allows advertisers to target the sensitive informational queries of cancer patients. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-170
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🔴 🌡️ **Impact of solar geoengineering on temperature-attributable mortality**
_“Using climate model simulations of idealized SG and data-driven of temperature-attributable mortality, we estimate that, in a world 2.5 °C warmer than preindustrial, 1 °C of global-average cooling by SG reduces mortality by over 400,000 deaths annually by 2080, with a possible range from −1.2 million to 2.7 million deaths annually.”_
A. Harding, G.A. Vecchi, W. Yang, D.W. Keith, Impact of solar geoengineering on temperature-attributable mortality, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 121 (52) e2401801121, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2401801121 (2024).
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