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Harmful Results in ARAX Query "What Causes Autism?" #2303

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ecwood opened this issue Jun 28, 2024 · 0 comments
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Harmful Results in ARAX Query "What Causes Autism?" #2303

ecwood opened this issue Jun 28, 2024 · 0 comments

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ecwood commented Jun 28, 2024

While investigating the presence of medical myths in RTX-KG2 (particularly those caused by retracted papers, see RTXteam/RTX-KG2#386), I ran the query "what causes autism?" on ARAX:

https://arax.rtx.ai/?r=243414

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The top result is "Vaccines". The second result is "Measles-Mumps-Rubella Vaccine". While RTX-KG2 is responsibly for passing along these edges, Steve recommended that I post an issue for ARAX as well. These two results are widely considered not just misinformation, but actively harmful. Is it possible that we could consider, for major medical myths like this, at least ranking harmful answers lower or blacklisting them entirely? Or is this dependent on RTX-KG2 to filter out these edges (which came largely from SemMedDB misparses)?

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