The coronavirus pandemic and the storming of the Capitol have created a perfect storm of conspiracism, especially visible on social media. Many commentators have returned to Richard Hofstadter’s analysis of the “paranoid style in American politics” to make sense of the surge of conspiracy-minded populism and the spread of disinformation. Conspiracism is usually framed as beyond the pale of…
Abstract The research program Spit For Science was launched at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in 2011. Since then, more than 10,000 freshmen have been enrolled…
The titular question, of what makes a disorder ‘mental,’ has an obvious answer: mental disorders are disorders of the mind.1 Some have been so certain…
Garson (2023) offers an engaging historical and philosophical discussion around the importance Late Modern thinkers assigned to the task of differentiating madness from idiocy (or…
Book Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press Series: Johns Hopkins Wavelengths View How can we all work together to eliminate the…
Book Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press Series: Johns Hopkins Wavelengths View How can we all work together to eliminate the…
Book Lisa Cooper, MD, MPH Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press Series: Johns Hopkins Wavelengths View How can we all work together to eliminate the…
Purchase/rental options available: Buy Issue for $25 at JHUP Abstract:A decrease in non-emergent procedure volume was observed during the COVID-19 pandemic to conserve protective equipment,…
Fraud in biomedical research, though relatively uncommon, damages the scientific community by diminishing the integrity of the ecosystem and sending other scientists down fruitless paths.…
Purchase/rental options available: Buy Issue for $25 at JHUP ABSTRACT:Recent surges in antivaccine activism and other antiscience trends now converge with rising antisemitism. During the…
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, infodemic spread even more rapidly than the pandemic itself. The COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy has been prevalent worldwide and hindered pandemic…
