🚨New Publication
Perceptions of Science and Politics During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Austria: Technocratic Overreach or Blame Deflection? 🧪
By Julia Partheymüller, Jakob-Moritz Eberl & Alexander Bogner
📄 Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11614-025-00619-0
📊 Based on data from the Austrian Corona Panel Project, full dataset available: https://doi.org/10.11587/28KQNS
🦋 Thread on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/.../schnizzl.bsky.social/post/3lvnucpsx7s2h
Dismissal Responses to New Ideas in #Physics
8. Dismissal via Redefinition
"This isn't physics; it's metaphysics."
"You're trying to redefine established concepts with vague terminology."
"Gravitation, Radiation, and Particulate Motion? Sounds like pseudoscience."
"This isn't a theory; it's just speculation."
#ScientificDogma #NewIdeas #PhysicsDebate #CriticalThinking #ScienceSkepticism #ParadigmShift #IntellectualBias #RedefiningPhysics #AcademicGatekeeping #SciComm #TheoreticalPhysics
"That skepticism proved fatal for more rural Americans than would have died had heartland vaccination rates mirrored those nationwide percentages.
Not every rural White American espouses xenophobic, conspiratorial, undemocratic, or violent attitudes. But rural Whites are overrepresented across all four of these threats.”
~ Ibid., pp. 173-4, 194
#Trump #rural #white #WhiteRuralRage #ConspiracyTheories #VaccineRefusal #COVID #ScienceSkepticism #xenophobia #violence
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“QAnon believers are one and a half times more likely to live in rural than in urban areas. ...
Scientific skepticism proved especially lethal when rural Whites – the citizens most dubious of pandemic experts – refused safe COVID-19 vaccines at rates higher than urban and suburban citizens."
~ Ibid., pp. 173, 194
#Trump #rural #white #WhiteRuralRage #QAnon #ConspiracyTheories #VaccineRefusal #COVID #ScienceSkepticism
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Julia Partheymüller
Matthew Collins
Michael Vera
William Lindsey 
SFB 1265