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Significant Far‐Right Challenges to Australian Society? The XYZ and AustraliaOne

Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scholars who analyse the Australian far‐right from a criminological or security studies perspective propose that activists and groups pose ‘political’ challenges to Australian society. This paper examines the far‐right news website The XYZ and the AustraliaOne political party, and argues that claims that the far‐right may normalise ...
Timothy Lynch
wiley   +1 more source

Perversity, futility, complicity: Should democrats participate in autocratic elections?

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Electoral authoritarianism is receiving increasing attention from political scientists, yet it has been mostly ignored by political philosophers. This paper aims to fill some of this gap by considering whether it is morally permissibly for democrats to participate in autocratic elections as candidates or voters.
Zoltan Miklosi
wiley   +1 more source

Ethical Considerations Regarding the Vaccination of Children—The Power Dynamics Between Doctors and Parents

Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While childhood vaccination programmes provide outstanding contributions to improving health, they can also pose challenges through the interactions between parents and healthcare. This paper focuses on the ethical dimensions of interactions between healthcare professionals and parents. Since the knowledge that professionals possess creates an
Mikael Sandlund, Ingemar Engström, Anders Castor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Frayed Rope and Resilient Threads: Fijian Healthcare and the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In April 2021, Fiji faced international scrutiny due to ‘horrific’ hospital conditions, including staff and patients lacking food, non‐operational operating theatres, and critical shortages of beds, medicine, and equipment. After successfully avoiding a major outbreak in 2020, a sudden surge in COVID‐19 cases in 2021 overwhelmed the public ...
Sharon McLennan, Johanna Thomas‐Maude, Apisalome Movono, Akisi Ravono   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Maintaining the Divide: The Legitimate Role for the Public in Health and Science Policymaking

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many of the most pressing policy choices we face are matters of health and science. How should we prepare for the next global pandemic? How should we manage the disruption and promise of artificial intelligence? How should we address the challenge of climate change?
Joshua J. Kassner
wiley   +1 more source

Contributions of worry and social anxiety to paranoia in clinical and non‐clinical samples: Cross‐sectional and longitudinal results

British Journal of Clinical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives Theoretical models implicate social anxiety and worry as potential drivers of paranoia; however, it is unknown which aspect of anxiety relates more strongly to paranoia, whether these relationships differ in clinical versus non‐clinical populations and how these variables relate to one another over time.
Brandee Feola, Hao Wu, Stephan Heckers, Jennifer U. Blackford, Neil D. Woodward, Jinyuan Liu, Julia M. Sheffield   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The gateway (mis)belief model: How misinformation impacts perceptions of scientific consensus and attitudes towards climate change

British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Climate change is one of the greatest threats to humanity, necessitating immediate action to combat its consequences. Although there is a nearly unanimous scientific consensus that climate change is human‐caused, misinformation doubting its causes continues to circulate widely.
Hannah Timna Logemann, Jacob B. Rode, Rakoen Maertens, Sander van der Linden   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fighting fire with fire: Prebunking with the use of a plausible meta‐conspiracy framing

British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Prebunking can be used to pre‐emptively refute conspiracy narratives. We developed a new approach to prebunking – fighting fire with fire – which introduces a plausible ‘meta‐conspiracy’ suggesting that conspiracy theories are deliberately spread as part of a wider conspiracy.
Mikey Biddlestone, Ricky Green, Daniel Toribio‐Flórez, Dylan de Gourville, Robbie M. Sutton, Karen M. Douglas   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The sociodemographic correlates of conspiracism

Scientific Reports
Despite hundreds of studies examining belief in conspiracy theories, it is still unclear who—demographically—is most likely to believe such theories.
Adam Enders, Casey Klofstad, Amanda Diekman, Hugo Drochon, Joel Rogers de Waal, Shane Littrell, Kamal Premaratne, Daniel Verdear, Stefan Wuchty, Joseph Uscinski   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sampling and processing of climate change information and disinformation across three diverse countries

British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the media, accurate climate information and climate disinformation often coexist and present competing narratives about climate change. Whereas previous research documented detrimental effects of disinformation on climate beliefs, little is known about how people seek climate‐related content and how this varies between cross‐cultural ...
Zahra Rahmani Azad, Tobia Spampatti, Sebastian Gluth, Kim‐Pong Tam, Ulf J. J. Hahnel   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source