You know, I was sort of aware of the problem in a “oh man doesn’t it suck that the world works this way?” thing, but I never even thought of it as a problem associated with any particular field i.e. library science.
Speaking of bandaid solutions, I wonder if you could apply some sentiment analysis on top of (say) Google’s related searches feature.
“Hey, you searched for ‘are vaccines bad’ which produced results with an average of 76% negative sentiment. Related search ‘foundational vaccination studies’ might produce more neutral or positive results”
And vice-versa