Many COVID vaccine conspiracy theories target Blacks: Here’s why they can work

December 23, 2021 antivax, fauci, tuskegee experiment

Archived 5 years ago from Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Many COVID vaccine conspiracy theories target Blacks: Here’s why they can work

A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine. Credit: Baltimore County Government. Some 53 percent of US adults get news from social media. They consume information in a zone in which inaccuracies spread far and wide, often on the back of emotional content that appeals to people at their cores. We’re …

Conspiracy

November 29, 2021 2020 election, tuskegee experiment

Archived 5 years ago from The Boston Globe
This chart on conspiracy theories has gone viral. A local disinformation researcher breaks down what to know

Advertisement In the time since Richards first designed her framework for understanding conspiracies and conspiracy theories, monumental events like the 2020 presidential election had not yet taken place nor had the coronavirus pandemic become as deeply intertwined with daily life. “When I made …

Philly’s unvaccinated aren’t all conspiracy theorists or anti-vaxxers. They’ve just got bigger problems than COVID. | Opinion

COVID-19

November 18, 2021 antivax, tuskegee experiment

Archived 5 years ago from The Philadelphia Inquirer
Philly’s unvaccinated aren’t all conspiracy theorists or anti-vaxxers. They’ve just got bigger problems than COVID. | Opinion

As almost any health professional will tell you, the best way for us to put the worst of COVID-19 behind us is to vaccinate as many people as possible. But that isn’t going as well as we would like — at the moment, less than 70% of Philadelphia residents ages 12 and up are fully vaccinated, and in …

COVID-19

November 1, 2021 antivax, bill gates, cdc, chloroquine, fauci, rfk jr, tuskegee experiment, vaers

Archived 5 years ago from Nature
How conspiracists exploited COVID-19 science

A desire to sabotage the electoral prospects of the incumbent US president was not the only motive that conspiracists saw at work. Greed and abuse of power and trust were assumed to be at play as well. Presuppositions of self-interested collusion among actors in federal agencies, philanthropic …

Joy Behar: Black people ‘skittish’ about COVID vaccines should get over it since ‘the experiment has been done on white people now’

COVID-19

October 8, 2021 antivax, cdc, tuskegee experiment

Archived 5 years ago from TheBlaze
Joy Behar: Black people ‘skittish’ about COVID vaccines should get over it since ‘the experiment has been done on white people now’

Joy Behar, co-host of “The View,” declared that black people who are “skittish” about receiving COVID-19 vaccines due to governmental distrust and past injustices such as the Tuskegee experiment should end their vaccine hesitancy because “the experiment has been done on white people now.” What are …

COVID-19

September 25, 2021 antivax, tuskegee experiment

Archived 5 years ago from Minneapolis Star Tribune
George Floyd Square COVID-19 vaccine drives target misinformation, mistrust

Even though Minneapolis removed barricades from the protest zone at E. 38th Street and Chicago Avenue, George Floyd Square remains a gathering place that attracts weekend crowds of the curious. The Rev. Curtis Farrar of Worldwide Outreach for Christ, the church opposite the spot where George Floyd …

Nicki Minaj tweets coronavirus vaccine conspiracy theory, spotlighting struggle against misinformation

COVID-19

September 14, 2021 antivax, ivermectin, tuskegee experiment

Archived 5 years ago from Anchorage Daily News
Nicki Minaj tweets coronavirus vaccine conspiracy theory, spotlighting struggle against misinformation

By Bryan Pietsch and Adela Suliman, The Washington Post Updated: 1 day ago Published: 1 day ago In this Monday, May 6, 2019, photo, Nicki Minaj attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File) Nicki Minaj sparked a …

Fact check: FDA has fully approved Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine

COVID-19

August 26, 2021 antivax, tuskegee experiment

Archived 5 years ago from USA TODAY
Fact check: FDA has fully approved Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine

The claim: The Food and Drug Administration hasn’t fully approved Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine The Food and Drug Administration has given its official stamp of approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine. But online, a conspiracy theory doubting that fact has blossomed. “DECEPTIVE MEDIA: …

Conspiracy

June 30, 2021 antivax, bill gates, cdc, chemtrails, covid19, fauci, george soros, moon landing, tuskegee experiment

Archived 5 years ago from UNC Research
Episode 2: Conspiracy and Racism

What do conspiracy theories and racism have in common? More than you might think. Deen Freelon discusses how white supremacy itself is a kind of highly successful disinformation campaign and how a willingness to believe all sorts of terrible and false things about people of other races might open a …

Effective Communication Can Overcome Vaccine Avoidance Effective Communication Can Overcome Vaccine Avoidance – PR News

COVID-19

June 23, 2021 antivax, fauci, tuskegee experiment

Archived 5 years ago from For Smart Communicators
Effective Communication Can Overcome Vaccine Avoidance Effective Communication Can Overcome Vaccine Avoidance – PR News

At the start of coronavirus, poor resource allocation and coordination contributed to widespread infections and unnecessary deaths. One victim was my college roommate, who died when NYC was the epicenter of America’s outbreak. Now, our challenge is to increase vaccination rates across the country. …

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