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1 month ago | 
socialsciencespace.com | Dannagal G. Young |Gordon Blair |Joe Sweeney |Mathew D. Marques
February 24, 2025 59 In his new book, Queering the Asian Diaspora: East and Southeast Asian Sexuality, Identity and Cultural Politics, the University of Nottingham’s Hongwei Bao takes a proudly multidisciplinary look at queer East and Southeast Asian culture, both as it presents at home and as it presents – and is perceived – in the West and beyond. Reflecting the interests and skills of Bao himself – academically he’s director of Research for the Department of Cultural, Media and Visual...
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2 months ago | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Matt Williams |Mathew D. Marques |John Kerr |Stephen Hill
1 Introduction Conspiracies happen: For example, covert operatives of the French intelligence service bombed and sunk the Greenpeace ship the Rainbow Warrior in 1985 (Clark 1988). A willingness on the part of the public to entertain the possibility of conspiracies is therefore essential. Nevertheless, some members of the public believe conspiracy theories that are not warranted by evidence: That the Apollo moon landings were filmed in a Hollywood studio (Lewandowsky et al.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
nature.com | Viktoria Cologna |Niels G. Mede |Sebastian Berger |Marina Joubert |Edward Maibach |Sabina Mihelj | +96 more
AbstractScience is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists.
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
theconversation.com | Mathew D. Marques |La Trobe
Conspiracy theories have always been a part of society, offering explanations – sometimes simple, often elaborate – for complex events. Some have uncovered genuine conspiracies, such as the Watergate scandal. Most lack substance but are nevertheless widely believed. For instance, the idea that the moon landing was staged has persisted for decades despite substantial evidence to the contrary. What drives people to adopt these beliefs?
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
journals.sagepub.com | Mathew D. Marques |John Kerr |Arthur Stukas |Jim McLennan
1. IntroductionConspiracy theories are narratives which attribute the cause and/or cover-up of an important event or phenomena from the public to a powerful and secretive group of malicious conspirators (Douglas et al., 2019). Understanding the phenomenon of conspiracy belief has proved challenging due to its complex and multifaceted nature.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
spssi.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Mathew D. Marques |Arthur Stukas
INTRODUCTION Privilege can be defined as an unearned advantage conferred based on group membership (McIntosh, 2007). For example, men are overrepresented in positions of power (ABS, 2020) and paid more than women for the same work (KPMG, 2022). Traditionally, psychology has treated gender inequality as a result of discrimination against women, with a great deal of research examining sexism, but relatively little on the other side of the coin: male privilege.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
g1.globo.com | Matt Williams |John Kerr |Mathew D. Marques
Muita gente acredita em pelo menos uma teoria da conspiração. E isso não é necessariamente algo ruim — conspirações acontecem. Para citar apenas um exemplo, a CIA, a agência de inteligência americana, realmente se envolveu em experimentos ilegais na década de 1950 para identificar drogas e procedimentos que pudessem resultar em confissões de espiões capturados. No entanto, muitas teorias da conspiração não são respaldadas por evidências, mas ainda assim atraem seguidores.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
niemanlab.org | Sophie Culpepper |Matt Williams |John Kerr |Mathew D. Marques
LINK: twitter.com ➚ | Posted by: Sophie Culpepper | February 20, 2024When Houston Landing editor-in-chief Mizanur Rahman and star investigative reporter Alex Stuckey were fired six weeks ago as part of what CEO Peter Bhatia called a company “reset,” remaining staff of the six-month-old nonprofit newsroom were “blindsided” by the loss of two widely beloved colleagues who had hired and mentored most other newsroom members.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
niemanlab.org | Joshua Benton |Matt Williams |John Kerr |Mathew D. Marques
Men named Arthur Sulzberger have tended to take over The New York Times at points of transition. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger became publisher in June 1963, just after the conclusion of 114-day printers’ strike that had kept all seven of New York’s daily newspapers from printing. The strike had been directly responsible for Sulzberger’s ascent, at age 37, to the position. The Times’ previous publisher had been his 50-year-old brother-in-law, Orvil Dryfoos.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
niemanlab.org | Matt Williams |John Kerr |Mathew D. Marques |Laura Oliver
Many people believe at least one conspiracy theory. And that isn’t necessarily a bad thing — conspiracies do happen. To take just one example, the CIA really did engage in illegal experiments in the 1950s to identify drugs and procedures that might produce confessions from captured spies. However, many conspiracy theories are not supported by evidence, yet still attract believers.
