4. The Politics of Health: Public Health & Misinformation

4. The Politics of Health: Public Health & Misinformation

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Confronting the Legacy of Eugenics and Ableism: Towards Anti-Ableist Bioscience Education - PMC
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 ...
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Confronting the Legacy of Eugenics and Ableism: Towards Anti-Ableist Bioscience Education - PMC
From small beginnings: to build an anti-eugenic future - The Lancet
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.
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From small beginnings: to build an anti-eugenic future - The Lancet
Comparing the US and Canada Shows Just How Badly America Has Bungled the Pandemic
Comparing the US and Canada Shows Just How Badly America Has Bungled the Pandemic
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.
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Comparing the US and Canada Shows Just How Badly America Has Bungled the Pandemic
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