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Newswise: Worsening Racial Inequality in Home Appraisals Detailed in New Report
Released: 1-Nov-2022 10:20 AM EDT
Worsening Racial Inequality in Home Appraisals Detailed in New Report
Washington University in St. Louis

Using data from the newly released Uniform Appraisal Dataset, which includes 47.3 million home appraisals, WashU’s Elizabeth Korver-Glenn and Junia Howell of the University of Illinois Chicago demonstrate stark inequalities in appraisal values between homes in white neighborhoods and communities of color.

Released: 1-Nov-2022 9:40 AM EDT
American Society of Anesthesiologists Urges Congress to Act to Fix Broken Medicare Payment System
American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)

The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) announced it has provided no-nonsense solutions to members of the U.S. House of Representatives, on behalf of the Society’s 56,000 members, outlining ways to fix the broken Medicare physician payment system and improve the Quality Payment Program.

Released: 31-Oct-2022 6:55 PM EDT
Partisans Willing to Upend Democracy to Help Their Party Win Even When Polarization Is Diminished
Northwestern University

There has long been an assumption that a connection exists between affective polarization (i.e., partisan dislike of those in the other party) and anti-democratic attitudes.

Released: 31-Oct-2022 4:05 PM EDT
American Society of Nephrology Commends Congressional Recognition of the 50th Anniversary of the Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease Program
American Society of Nephrology (ASN)

● The Congressional Kidney Caucus recognizes the 50th anniversary of the Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Program. ● Kidney health leaders join the Congressional Kidney Caucus in calling for greater emphasis on intervening earlier and increasing disease awareness, increasing access to transplantation, and accelerating innovation in kidney health in the future of the ESRD Program.

Released: 31-Oct-2022 1:45 PM EDT
Female Politicians Disadvantaged by Online Prejudices and Stereotypes
University of Copenhagen

Studies of Reddit content demonstrate that female politicians are more likely to be referred to by their first names and language describing appearance and family relationships.

Newswise: Expert: 4 Ways Americans Can Keep Their Vote Secure and Accurate
Released: 28-Oct-2022 8:00 AM EDT
Expert: 4 Ways Americans Can Keep Their Vote Secure and Accurate
University of Michigan

J. Alex Halderman, one of the nation's foremost election security experts and a professor of computer science at the University of Michigan, has spent much of the last two years debunking false claims of fraud that followed the 2020 election.

Released: 27-Oct-2022 7:35 PM EDT
Nostalgia — a Rhetorical Tool for Populists and the Radical Right
University of Gothenburg

Nostalgic rhetoric is used by parties and political movements on both the right and the left, as they imagine and make use of different versions of the past.

26-Oct-2022 6:05 AM EDT
Voters in Northern Ireland keen to see UK-EU agreement over the Protocol but the challenge of ‘selling’ any such agreement is growing
Queen's University Belfast

Support among voters in Northern Ireland for the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland remains steady, a new opinion poll conducted by Lucid Talk on behalf of Queen’s University Belfast, has revealed.

Released: 26-Oct-2022 2:40 PM EDT
Considering COVID a Hoax Is ‘Gateway’ to Belief in Conspiracy Theories
Ohio State University

Belief that the COVID-19 pandemic was a hoax – that its severity was exaggerated or that the virus was deliberately released for sinister reasons – functions as a “gateway” to believing in conspiracy theories generally, new research has found.

20-Oct-2022 10:40 AM EDT
COVID-19 conspiracy theories could be a “gateway” to belief in more conspiracies
PLOS

In a new analysis, people who more strongly believed in COVID-19 conspiracy theories were more likely to subsequently develop an increased tendency to believe in conspiracy theories in general.

Released: 25-Oct-2022 2:10 PM EDT
The latest news in Opioids, Drug Abuse, and Addiction
Newswise

Here are some of the latest articles that have been added to the Drugs and drug abuse channel.

Released: 25-Oct-2022 2:05 PM EDT
Where AI and disinformation meet
Arizona State University (ASU)

ASU business professor says cyber adversaries will look to midterm elections to stir the pot with voters, with most of the hyperbolic chatter coming from malicious bots spreading racism and hate on social media and in the comments section on news sites.

Newswise: The Future of the Supreme Court: A Conversation with Law Professor Richard W. Garnett
Released: 24-Oct-2022 4:05 PM EDT
The Future of the Supreme Court: A Conversation with Law Professor Richard W. Garnett
University of Notre Dame

Richard W. Garnett is the University of Notre Dame’s Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor of Law, director of the Law School’s Program on Church, State & Society and a concurrent professor of political science. Garnett discusses the future of the Supreme Court.

Released: 21-Oct-2022 2:05 PM EDT
War in Ukraine widens global divide in public attitudes toward US, China and Russia – report
University of Cambridge

Around the world, public attitudes toward international politics are coalescing into two opposing blocks: liberal democracies favouring the United States (US) and citizens of more authoritarian nations who back China and Russia – a process accelerated by the war in Ukraine.

Released: 21-Oct-2022 9:30 AM EDT
Neither Pfizer nor the government ever claimed to have conducted studies on the vaccine's effect on transmission in its original clinical trials
Newswise

Pfizer didn’t claim to have tested its COVID-19 vaccine’s ability to prevent transmission, and this information was clearly available in press releases published by the European Medicines Agency as well as the published study containing results from Pfizer’s clinical trials.

Released: 20-Oct-2022 7:20 PM EDT
Research Links Local News, Civic Health of Communities
University of Oregon

A new report from the UO’s Agora Journalism Center found that Oregonians are unequally served by local news media and that some communities have few places to turn for local news.

Released: 20-Oct-2022 3:45 PM EDT
Nearly 40% of Voters May Cross Party Lines for Candidate with Plan to Lower Healthcare Costs
West Health Institute

Nearly nine in 10 Americans say a candidate's plan for reducing healthcare costs will be an important consideration in determining their vote, and almost 40% of them, or an estimated 100 million Americans, say it could even make them cross party lines in the upcoming midterm elections, according to a new poll from West Health and Gallup.

   
Released: 20-Oct-2022 10:05 AM EDT
Major Medical Societies to Support Texas Medical Association Federal Surprise Billing Lawsuit
American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)

The American College of Emergency Physicians, American College of Radiology® (ACR®) and American Society of Anesthesiologists support the new Texas Medical Association (TMA) suit filed Oct. 12, stating that the Surprise Billing Final Rule independent dispute resolution (IDR) process still fails to comply with No Surprises Act (NSA) statutory text.

Newswise: Online Taiwan Lectures on Chinese Studies “China-US Geopolitics in the 21st Century”
Released: 20-Oct-2022 8:55 AM EDT
Online Taiwan Lectures on Chinese Studies “China-US Geopolitics in the 21st Century”
Chulalongkorn University

Chulalongkorn University invites all to attend the online Taiwan Lectures on Chinese Studies, “China-US Geopolitics in the 21st Century”, on Thursday, October 27th, 2022, from 14:00-16:00 Thailand time (ICT) via Zoom.

Newswise: WashU Experts: Midterm elections have widespread ramifications
Released: 19-Oct-2022 3:55 PM EDT
WashU Experts: Midterm elections have widespread ramifications
Washington University in St. Louis

Voters in this year’s midterm elections, to be held nationwide Nov. 8, will be motivated by a number of hot-button issues, including abortion, climate change, voting rights, the economy and more.Here, Washington University in St. Louis faculty experts weigh in on some of the issues that will be top of voters’ minds as they head to the polls.

Newswise: Climate Change Consensus Endures in Florida
Released: 19-Oct-2022 8:30 AM EDT
Climate Change Consensus Endures in Florida
Florida Atlantic University

Seven sequenced surveys since October 2019 paint a comprehensive picture of Floridians’ climate resilience attitudes during a period of particularly dynamic political, economic and environmental events. Climate change has emerged as an abiding and cross-cutting issue in Florida.

   
Released: 17-Oct-2022 4:10 PM EDT
New study investigates how beliefs and political affiliations shape the public’s understanding about racial inequalities
Syracuse University

A recently released study coauthored by a Syracuse University researcher reveals how beliefs and political affiliations shape the public’s understanding about racial inequalities.

Released: 14-Oct-2022 3:55 PM EDT
Recent news of recovery in the Great Barrier Reef brings hope, but climate change-induced ocean warming is still causing massive bleaching of coral
Newswise

Good news in the report about the recovery of coral in Australia's Great Barrier Reef. However, this news is not a reason for dismissing the severe effect that climate change-induced ocean warming is bringing to coral reefs in the GBR and throughout the world, says Prof.

Released: 13-Oct-2022 10:05 AM EDT
Book: Partisanship led to disastrous response to COVID-19
Cornell University

The halting, confusing response to COVID-19 in the U.S. resulted from decisions by President Donald Trump and his allies to politicize the pandemic by associating it with his own fate in office, according to a new book by a Cornell author.



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