From students to politicians, many smart people have fallen for dangerous lies spread about the new coronavirus. Why? And how can you protect yourself from misinformation?
Coronavirus Is the Crisis of Conspiracy Theorists' Wildest Dreams
Conspiracy peddlers of every stripe are increasingly twisting the pandemic to bolster their world views—and to claim that perhaps it's not real at all.
How cognitive biases and adverse events influence vaccine decisions (maybe even your own)
To help increase trust in vaccines, researchers analyzed data on adverse events to address safety concerns, and then used cognitive science to show how cognitive biases feed vaccine hesitancy.
COVID-19: The Unvaccinated Pose a Risk to the Vaccinated - FactCheck.org
Q: How do people who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 pose a risk to people who have been vaccinated? A: An unvaccinated person who is infected with COVID-19 poses a much greater risk to others who are also unvaccinated. But vaccines are not 100% effective, so there is a chance that an unvaccinated person could infect a vaccinated person — particularly the vulnerable, such as elderly and immunocompromised individuals.
Vaccine hesitancy: Why ‘doing your own research’ doesn’t work, but reason alone won’t change minds
Vaccine hesitancy is often met with one of two responses: Ridicule, or factual information. Both assume a failure of reason, but human behaviour is more complex than reason, so both responses fail.
Heatmaps indicating highest moral allocation by ideology, Study 3a....
Download scientific diagram | Heatmaps indicating highest moral allocation by ideology, Study 3a. Source data are provided as a Source Data file. Note. The highest value on the heatmap scale is 20 units for liberals, and 12 units for conservatives. Moral circle rings, from inner to outer, are described as follows: (1) all of your immediate family, (2) all of your extended family, (3) all of your closest friends, (4) all of your friends (including distant ones), (5) all of your acquaintances, (6) all people you have ever met, (7) all people in your country, (8) all people on your continent, (9) all people on all continents, (10) all mammals, (11) all amphibians, reptiles, mammals, fish, and birds, (12) all animals on earth including paramecia and amoebae, (13) all animals in the universe, including alien lifeforms, (14) all living things in the universe including plants and trees, (15) all natural things in the universe including inert entities such as rocks, (16) all things in existence from publication: Ideological differences in the expanse of the moral circle | Do clashes between ideologies reflect policy differences or something more fundamental? The present research suggests they reflect core psychological differences such that liberals express compassion toward less structured and more encompassing entities (i.e., universalism),... | morals, Compassion and Empathy | ResearchGate, the professional network for scientists.
Alberta doctors push back on provincial COVID-19 task force report
A task force created by the UCP government to review the province's pandemic response has issued its final report and, while it is currently being reviewed by the province, Alberta doctors are pushing back, saying it contains misinformation and poses a threat to public health.
FREE FOR ALL: Naomi Klein on “diagonalism” — and how the right steals the left’s causes
Looking back on our conversation with the author and activist on how the left let the far right build a mirror world of negative politics — and how it can change
Confronting Our Next National Health Disaster — Long-Haul Covid | NEJM
Some 10 to 30% of Americans who’ve been infected with SARS-CoV-2 are still having
debilitating symptoms months later, a trend that suggests that “long Covid” is our
next public health disaster in t...
What’s up with Trump stopping majority of research funding in the US? : r/OutOfTheLoop
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