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In Australia, defending against SLAPPs [Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, a term coined by George Pring and Penelope Canan in SLAPPs: Getting Sued for Speaking Out (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996)] has to operate differently…
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On the surface, it might seem that a narrative is just a way of describing the practical reality of disease and vaccination. But narratives are more than descriptions: they affect the way people process information,…
To examine this issue, it’s useful to look at the role of expertise in public scientific controversies. Vaccination proponents sometimes say that in order to have any credibility, it’s necessary to have appropriate credentials and…
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Why not engage in debate? If all the evidence supports vaccination, a debate might seem like an ideal opportunity to make the case for vaccinating and to demolish the arguments of the critics. However, there…
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There are boundaries between countries and there are also less tangible boundaries between sets of ideas. One special boundary is between science and non-science. This can also be called a difference or distinction or demarcation.…
Что, если видовая дивергенція уже происходитъ, и не (только) на уровнѣ элитъ? Все, начинающееся либо перефразируемое съ “трансъ-” – трансгуманизмъ, трансгендерность, добываемыя при помощи психоактивныхъ веществъ и оккультныхъ, напримѣръ неоязыческихъ, практикъ трансовыя состоянія, видовая /…
Среди нацистскихъ обертоновъ предположительно-благонамѣреннаго “прогрессивнаго” дискурса примѣчательно своеобразное пониманіе (не)полноцѣнности и своеобразная замороченность ею же. Складывается престранная картина, будто бы человѣкъ либо истинный аріецъ – и слѣдуетъ бороться за то, чтобы въ женщинахъ, Blacks (непереводимый,…
Like the hot spots on a polluted piece of property, where the accumulation of toxins is high enough to provoke recategorization of the entire site, the terrain of Gulf War Illness can serve as an…
Read more of Kim Fortun on conspiracy theories as locational devices
Непропорціонально-мощный эффектъ производитъ этотъ постъ подъ названіемъ “Ковид-пандемия: взгляд ковидоскептика” на Хабрѣ – не героизмомъ или геніальностью автора (нѣкоего A114n), а всего лишь тѣмъ, что тотъ составилъ послѣдовательную и связную хронологію событій, какъ онъ ее…
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– Of Two Minds: An Anthropologist Looks at American Psychiatry (2001) In the summer of 1994, I called Randy Gollub because a senior psychiatrist had described her to me as a star. (Unless otherwise indicated,…
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