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COVID-19, a “Cure”, and Religion in Afghanistan

August 20, 2020 by Dave
Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, religious herbalists are offering a COVID-19 cure that uses opioids. People really do feel better, but this is not a cure.

Categories consumer, Fake News, Health, Medicine, society Tags Afghanistan, COVID-19, cure

Is the Russian COVID-19 Vaccine real?

June 30, 2024August 19, 2020 by Dave
COVID-19 Vaccine

The Russian COVID-19 announcement is a con job. They have not conducted Phase III trials and don’t know if it actually works.

Categories Medicine, politics, science, society Tags COVID-19, vaccine

Questions to ask when faced with a poll

August 18, 2020 by Dave
poll

In an election year it is of vital importance to understand the questions that you should be asking when presented with a poll?

Categories consumer, Critical Thinking, Fake News, poll, society Tags poll

What is with all the beach shaming?

May 20, 2024August 12, 2020 by Dave
beach shaming

The latest bit of COVID-19 misinformation appears to be the media indulging in what is best described as beach shaming. It’s not high risk.

Categories Fake News, Medicine, society Tags beach shaming, COVID-19, fake news, misinformation

Survey: Religious exemptions for COVID-19 regulations

April 5, 2022August 10, 2020 by Dave
Religious exceptions

A recent Pew survey reveals that the vast majority oppose religious exemptions to COVID-19 regulations that are there to protect us all.

Categories Medicine, poll, religion, society Tags COVID-19, pew, religious Exemptions

Racism among white Christians is higher than among the nonreligious

August 3, 2020 by Dave
racism

The light-skinned Jesus conjured up by white congregations still demands the preservation of inequality as part of the supposed divine order.

Categories People, politics, society Tags evangelicals, racism, study
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