4. The Politics of Health

September, 1921 was unusually hot and New York was sweltering. For the many immigrants who crowded the city's tenements and pavements, one of the few places for relief from the incessant heat was the American Museum of Natural History. That summer the museum presented a new exhibition with rows of human skulls, snapshots of patients in psychiatric institutions, and the preserved brain of a serial killer. It was all terribly macabre. The immigrants among the museum's visitors who read the leaflet distributed at the entrance soon discovered that this exhibition was all about them.

Keesha Middlemass examines how RFK Jr.'s vaccine rhetoric and medical misinformation could deepen distrust from the Black community.

The would-be Trump appointee is set to undermine public health—and take public education down with it.

Exposing the antiscience playbook reveals the antiregulatory motives of its deep-pocketed bankrollers

Vaccine resistance movements have always been led by white, middle-class voices and promoted by structures of racial inequality.

Canada isn’t the beacon of social democracy that many progressive Americans imagine. But when faced with the coronavirus crisis, the US’s inept political class and for-profit health system couldn't even match a country with a moderate welfare state and functional government.

As America’s health crisis deepens, some experts are calling to “depoliticize” public health. But what we need isn’t less politics in health care — it’s a mass movement to transform our broken system into one that serves everyone.

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Since COVID, parents have more questions and more concerns.

“Greedy billionaire trying to ripoff the American people pretending to be altruistic is all I see,” the lawmaker said.

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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...

9 cases are confirmed and 3 are probable. Officials says more are likely to come.

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The medical industry under capitalism operates as a lethal paradox: a system ostensibly designed to heal instead perpetuates preventable suffering…

Kennedy claimed Sanders was "the single largest receiver of pharmaceutical money" in Congress in 2020.

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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.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Monday it would no longer post on X and would use rival Bluesky instead, becoming the latest organisation to quit a social media platform that some have criticised for its content.

Scientific expertise matters and lives are at stake. It’s time to park egos, politics, conjecture, pseudoscience, propaganda—and anecdotes.

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]

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.