The confluence of misinformation and infectious disease isn’t unique to COVID-19. Misinformation contributed to the spread of the Ebola epidemic in …
Misinformation Spreads Like a Virus: Curated by Dr. Katharine Hayhoe
Coronavirus is a global problem. No matter who we are and where we live, it affects us all. But so is climate change; and the misinformation that is circulating about both COVID and climate puts us all at risk. The essays, articles, and videos I chose highlight the links between climate change, coronavirus, and our health. Tackling both of them is not only important but essential to our health, our well-being, and our future.
The Link between COVID, Climate Change and Health
Dr. Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist whose research focuses on understanding what climate change means for people and the places where we live. She is an endowed professor of public policy and law in the Dept. of Political Science at Texas Tech University, she hosts the PBS digital series Global Weirding, and she has been named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People, the United Nations Champion of the Environment, and the World Evangelical Alliance’s Climate Ambassador.
An introduction to a new video series examining the logical fallacies, rhetorical techniques, and conspiratorial thinking found in COVID-19 misinformation. Follow me here: TWITTER: https://twitter.com/johnfocook...
Do you see COVID-19 altering urbanization trends, such as safety concerns driving high-income households outside of cities? If so, what would be the …
WASHINGTON — Of the flood of misinformation, conspiracy theories and falsehoods seeding the internet on the coronavirus, one common thread stands out: President Trump. That is the conclusion of researchers...
My eleventh Critical Thinking about COVID video explores the fake expert strategy: one of the most persuasive forms of misinformation. In the 1980s, tobacco companies were desperate to convince us smoking...
At the time of writing, the world is in the grips of a global pandemic the like of which has never been seen before. The COVID-19 that has swept through countries and continents has caused untold human...
Global Weirding with Katharine Hayhoe
This pandemic is responsible for untold suffering around the world. If anything, it's simply reminding us how interconnected we all are, and how we can ignore a crisis until it's brought to our attention....
What does climate change have to do with the coronavirus? Climate change is not increasing the geographic range of COVID-19. And the novel virus did not come from the permafrost or the soil, like other...