Molecular Biology and Clinical Medicine in the Age of Politicization, Volume 188 provides readers with an appreciation of the practical effects of the politicization of science on their work. Topics covered in the volume include Shattered Silos: Politicization of Science through Changing Research Norms, Moralized Science Communication (with applications for molecular biologists), Vax Attacks: How Conspiratorial Thinking and Misinformation Undermines COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake, Effects of Politicized Media Coverage: Experiment Evidence on Mammography, HPV, and COVID-19, Communicating CRISPR: Challenges and Opportunities in Engaging the Public, Strategic Communication and Engagement for the Biomedical Sciences, and more.
Additional chapters cover The Great and Powerful Oz: On the Authority and Misuse of Science, The Gateway-Belief Model and the Politicization of Climate Science, Effects of Politicization on the Practice of Science, When Politics Trumps Science, The Effect of Media Framing and Politics on COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy, and more.
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Table of Contents
Preface Toby Bolsen and Risa Palm 1. Science, politics and institutional design in regulation Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner 2. Beyond the sheltering academic silo: Norms for scientists' participation in policy Karen L. Akerlof 3. Effects of politicization on the practice of science Hannah Schmid-Petri, Nils Bienzeisler and Arista Beseler 4. Politics v. science: How president trump's war on science impacted public health and environmental regulation Romany M. Webb and Lauren Kurtz 5. Politicization and COVID-19 vaccine resistance in the United States Toby Bolsen and Risa Palm 6. Effects of politicized media coverage: Experimental evidence from the HPV vaccine and COVID-19 Erika Franklin Fowler, Rebekah H. Nagler, Darshana Banka and Sarah E. Gollust 7. Vax attacks: How conspiracy theory belief undermines vaccine support Christina E. Farhart, Ella Douglas-Durham, Krissy Lunz Trujillo and Joseph A. Vitriol 8. Communicating CRISPR: Challenges and opportunities in engaging the public Elizabeth S. Baik, Abraham Koshy and Bruce W. Hardy 9. Moral conviction: A challenge in the age of science politicization Robin Bayes 10. Strategic Science communication in the age of politicization Todd P. Newman
