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Anti-Vax to Anti-Mask: Processing Anti-Science Claims During a Pandemic

September 3, 2020

So-called anti-maskers have emerged during the COVID pandemic, and their arguments are strikingly similar to anti-vaxxer claims. How do we think about these two together?

Kristin Brig ⋅ Perspectives in Research antiscience, coronavirus, covid-19, masks, public health ⋅

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Global Threats to Public Health: Dr. Peter Hotez on Climate Change, Conflicts, Poverty and Antiscience

March 3, 2020

In this year’s Hopkins Medicine Distinguished Speakers Series, Peter Hotez from Baylor College of Medicine in Texas spoke about the need to find new medicines for neglected tropical diseases and to confront familiar diseases that are growing worse each year thanks to climate change, global conflicts, poverty and antiscience movements.

Kristin Brig ⋅ Events and Happenings antiscience, Global Health, politics, public health ⋅

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