"#Climatescientist #MichaelMann called the report “a deeply misleading #antiscientific narrative, built on deceptive arguments, misrepresented datasets, and distortion of actual scientific understanding.” @Insideclimatenews
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30072025/climate-scientists-fight-against-energy-department-report/
Climate Scientists Look to Fight Back Against DOE’s ‘Antiscientific,’ ‘Deceptive’ Climate Report - Inside Climate News
Climate scientist Michael Mann called the report “a deeply misleading antiscientific narrative, built on deceptive arguments, misrepresented datasets, and distortion of actual scientific understanding.”
“endorsement of #antivaccination arguments meaningfully dovetails with attitude roots clustering around #antiscientific beliefs and partisan ideologies, but that the balance between those attitudes differs considerably between people.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-30883-7
Psychological profiles of anti-vaccination argument endorsement - Scientific Reports
The proliferation of anti-vaccination arguments online can threaten immunisation programmes, including those targeting COVID-19. To effectively refute misinformed views about vaccination, communicators need to go beyond providing correct information and debunking of misconceptions, and must consider the underlying motivations of people who hold contrarian views. Drawing on a taxonomy of anti-vaccination arguments that identified 11 “attitude roots”—i.e., psychological attributes—that motivate an individual’s vaccine-hesitant attitude, we assessed whether these attitude roots were identifiable in argument endorsements and responses to psychological construct measures corresponding to the presumed attitude roots. In two UK samples (total n = 1250), we found that participants exhibited monological belief patterns in their highly correlated endorsements of anti-vaccination arguments drawn from different attitude roots, and that psychological constructs representing the attitude roots significantly predicted argument endorsement strength and vaccine hesitancy. We identified four different latent anti-vaccination profiles amongst our participants’ responses. We conclude that endorsement of anti-vaccination arguments meaningfully dovetails with attitude roots clustering around anti-scientific beliefs and partisan ideologies, but that the balance between those attitudes differs considerably between people. Communicators must be aware of those individual differences.
#CorporateMadnessThe instruction not to self-test for
#SARSCoV2 illogical, if not
#antiscientific.
💯'Short sighted’ doesn’t begin to describe my outrage at this callous approach to staff & patient safety.' Prof @SGriffin_Lab
@bmj_latest
#COVIDisAirbornehttps://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj.p2363 Covid-19: Reinstate routine testing in hospitals to protect vulnerable patients, say charities
Charities representing vulnerable patients have called on the UK government to boost covid precautions in hospitals, such as routine covid testing in clinical settings and asking staff to wear masks if patients feel at risk.
Latest data show that the number of people testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 in England increased by 29% in the week to 4 October, from 11 513 to 14 856. There has also been a 25% rise in patients being admitted to hospital with covid, from 3060 to 3819 in the week to 29 September.1
At the same time the number of PCR tests for covid that have taken place in England dropped by 15% in the seven days to 3 October, from 38 352 to 32 806. PCR testing is no longer available to the public free of charge through the NHS, but patients may be tested before having surgery or if they have to stay in hospital for a number of days.
PCR testing …
#CorporateMadnessThe instruction not to self-test for
#SARSCoV2 illogical, if not
#antiscientific.
💯'Short sighted’ doesn’t begin to describe my outrage at this callous approach to staff & patient safety.' Prof @SGriffin_Lab
@bmj_latest
#COVIDisAirbornehttps://www.bmj.com/content/383/bmj.p2363 Covid-19: Reinstate routine testing in hospitals to protect vulnerable patients, say charities
Charities representing vulnerable patients have called on the UK government to boost covid precautions in hospitals, such as routine covid testing in clinical settings and asking staff to wear masks if patients feel at risk.
Latest data show that the number of people testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 in England increased by 29% in the week to 4 October, from 11 513 to 14 856. There has also been a 25% rise in patients being admitted to hospital with covid, from 3060 to 3819 in the week to 29 September.1
At the same time the number of PCR tests for covid that have taken place in England dropped by 15% in the seven days to 3 October, from 38 352 to 32 806. PCR testing is no longer available to the public free of charge through the NHS, but patients may be tested before having surgery or if they have to stay in hospital for a number of days.
PCR testing …
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