J.R.Bruning Talking Risk
On democracy, policy & public-interest stewardship of manmade tech
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MNZH’s THREE-PART FISCAL REFORM: GST ‘OFF’, JUNK FOOD TAX ‘ON’ (opens the original)
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I was thinking about a potential paper presentation for an up and coming conference, how we know what we know, and don’t know what we don’t know, who is sidelined and stigmatized, and who benefits, when I stumbled onto an increasing literature on conspiracy theories, and recent research that found that the knowledge held by so-called conspiracy theorists during the COVID-19 event, was much more nuanced than publicly recognised. A media search for use of this term in New Zealand, led me to <a hre
Politicians: Stuck in Scientific Purgatory in Election Year. (opens the original)
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