Confronting the Legacy of Eugenics and Ableism: Towards Anti-Ableist Bioscience Education - PubMed
Society and education are inherently ableist. Disabled people are routinely excluded from education, or have poorer outcomes within educational systems. Improving educational experiences and outcomes for people of color has required educators to design antiracist curricula that explicitly address ra …
Confronting the Legacy of Eugenics and Ableism: Towards Anti-Ableist Bioscience Education - PMC
Society and education are inherently ableist. Disabled people are routinely excluded from education, or have poorer outcomes within educational systems. Improving educational experiences and outcomes for people of color has required educators to ...
The Anti-vaccination Movement: A Regression in Modern Medicine - PMC
There have been recent trends of parents in Western countries refusing to vaccinate their children due to numerous reasons and perceived fears. While opposition to vaccines is as old as the vaccines themselves, there has been a recent surge in the ...
From small beginnings: to build an anti-eugenic future - The Lancet
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.
Books: We Want Them Infected. How the Failed Quest for Herd Immunity Led Doctors to Embrace the Anti-Vaccine Movement and Blinded Americans to the Threat of COVID: ‘Natural Infection’ - PMC
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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...
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.
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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]
[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.
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?