Outrage Overload

A Connors Institute podcast

Tag: polarization

Outrage BONUS – Could we have done better to avoid the politicization of COVID? – Kevin Bass

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March 28, 2023

David Beckemeyer

COVID19, mitigation, modeling, pandemic, polarization, politicization, publichealth, science, socialmedia, trust, vaccine

Kevin Bass, an M.D./Ph.D. student, recently wrote an opinion piece for Newsweek titled It’s Time for the Scientific Community to Admit We Were Wrong About COVID and It Cost Lives. He says: the scientific community from the CDC to the WHO to the FDA and their representatives, repeatedly overstated the evidence and misled the public…
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Outrage 004 – Why political parties in America cater less to moderate and independent voters – Sean Evans

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January 6, 2023

David Beckemeyer

mediabias, outrage, outragemedia, polarization, politicalanalysis, politicalcartoons, politicalcommentary, politicalhumor, politicalmemes, politicalnews, politicalphilosophy, politicalpolarization, politicalscience, politicaltheory, politics

I first reached out to Sean Evans because he wrote an article about Ways to Stay Out of the Culture of Outrage. However, when we met I got interested in hearing from a political scientist to get the political science perspective regarding some of the themes we often discuss on the podcast, such as political…
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