4. The Politics of Health

4. The Politics of Health

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Conspiracies Gone Wild: A Psychiatric Perspective on Conspiracy Theory Belief, Mental Illness, and the Potential for Lone Actor Ideological Violence
Conspiracies Gone Wild: A Psychiatric Perspective on Conspiracy Theory Belief, Mental Illness, and the Potential for Lone Actor Ideological Violence
Conspiracy theory belief (CTB) has been increasingly recognized as a driving force of extremist violence. This paper provides a psychiatric perspective on the phenomenon of CTB-driven violence in a...
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Conspiracies Gone Wild: A Psychiatric Perspective on Conspiracy Theory Belief, Mental Illness, and the Potential for Lone Actor Ideological Violence
Scientists discover that even mild COVID-19 can alter brain proteins linked to Alzheimer’s disease, potentially increasing dementia risk—raising urgent public health concerns.
Scientists discover that even mild COVID-19 can alter brain proteins linked to Alzheimer’s disease, potentially increasing dementia risk—raising urgent public health concerns.
7.3K votes, 234 comments. 34M subscribers in the science community. This community is a place to share and discuss new scientific research. Read…
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Scientists discover that even mild COVID-19 can alter brain proteins linked to Alzheimer’s disease, potentially increasing dementia risk—raising urgent public health concerns.
Ran Goel: The true cost of cheap food
Ran Goel: The true cost of cheap food
How much do you spend on groceries? Do you think that price accounts for the true cost of food production? We have entered into an unspoken agreement with our grocery stores: give us cheap prices and we'll look the other way. Ran Goel is an investment lawyer turned urban farm owner who wants to connect people to the source of the food they buy. He's on a mission to turn consumers into active citizens to create stronger communities, healthier environments, and a more just food system.
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Ran Goel: The true cost of cheap food
How can I spot and deal with health and science misinformation? | The Dose | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen
How can I spot and deal with health and science misinformation? | The Dose | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen
A new Canadian Medical Association survey suggests that health misinformation is on the rise. Law professor and research director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta Tim Caulfield gives examples of health and science misinformation, breaks down how to spot it, and offers tips on how we can talk to friends and family about misinformation they might believe is true. For transcripts of The Dose, please visit: lnk.to/dose-transcripts [https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-dose-transcripts-listen-1.6732281]. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. For more episodes of this podcast, click this link. [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dose/id1498259551]
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How can I spot and deal with health and science misinformation? | The Dose | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen
[PDF] The role of conspiracy mentality in denial of science and susceptibility to viral deception about science | Semantic Scholar
[PDF] The role of conspiracy mentality in denial of science and susceptibility to viral deception about science | Semantic Scholar
It is found that conspiracy mentality and science literacy both play important roles in believing viral and deceptive claims about science, but evidence for the importance of conspiracy mentality in the rejection of science is much more mixed. Abstract. Members of the public can disagree with scientists in at least two ways: people can reject well-established scientific theories and they can believe fabricated, deceptive claims about science to be true. Scholars examining the reasons for these disagreements find that some individuals are more likely than others to diverge from scientists because of individual factors such as their science literacy, political ideology, and religiosity. This study builds on this literature by examining the role of conspiracy mentality in these two phenomena. Participants were recruited from a national online panel (N = 513) and in person from the first annual Flat Earth International Conference (N = 21). We found that conspiracy mentality and science literacy both play important roles in believing viral and deceptive claims about science, but evidence for the importance of conspiracy mentality in the rejection of science is much more mixed.
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[PDF] The role of conspiracy mentality in denial of science and susceptibility to viral deception about science | Semantic Scholar