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The conspiracy theory video “Plandemic” recently went viral. As scholars who research conspiracy theories, we believe there is value in exposing the rhetorical techniques used in this video.
“What the hell is happening?” said Rachel Patterson, who owns a hair salon in Huntsville, Alabama, and who has been screamed at, cussed out and walked out on for asking clients to don a mask. “Like, I feel like we are living on another planet. Like I don’t — I don’t recognize anyone anymore.”
Kentucky is reopening Kynect, the state's health-insurance exchange, as the portal for Kentuckians to purchase low- or no-cost insurance, and the site will have two more insurers and its first vision plan.
The Republicans sense disarray and division within the Democratic Party, and will use it to their cynical advantage to win elections and implement their dangerous far-right agenda. The implications for democracy in America are too frightening to contemplate.
From my perspective, the fundamental problem is that we no longer trust one another. The lost thread is truth. And good Republicans are in the best position to address this problem. They need to speak openly and honestly to their base.
At the height of the pandemic in 2020, St. Claire had a maximum of 25 patients, and saw around two Covid-related deaths a week. But now, ss of September 17, St. Claire had more than 160 Covid positive patients, and was experiencing two or three deaths per day.
State Senate President Robert Stivers sent Gov. Andy Beshear a letter today, asking him to call a special session to address health-care staffing shortages that continue even as the pandemic slowly wanes. Beshear said more work needs to be done before a session, which only he can call.
The so-called “Spartacus” letter contains numerous baseless claims buried within over 40 pages of analysis and citations, and which appears to have been carefully crafted to mask the dubious nature of the letter’s origin and the unfounded nature of many of the author’s allegations.
Instead of giving handouts to select private schools, shouldn’t we be restoring funding for public schools?
47 million adults say that the 2020 election was stolen. 21 million also agree that “use of force is justified to restore Donald J. Trump to the presidency.” At least 7 million of these own a gun, and at least 3 million have served in the U.S. military and so have lethal skills.
Do masks work? Recently, I was part of the largest randomized controlled trial to date testing the effectiveness of mask-wearing. What we found provides gold-standard evidence that confirms previous research: Wearing masks, particularly surgical masks, prevents COVID-19.
Kentucky lawmakers and state advocates want to expand the state's unemployment system to include survivors of domestic violence.
Officials with a company that received $15 million from the state to help build a $1.7 billion aluminum mill in northeast Kentucky, which would have employed hundreds of people, were grilled by state lawmakers on Friday over a lack of progress in constructing the facility.
The U.S. used to have a rigorously progressive tax system – but now, the uber-rich actually pay a lower tax rate than the poorest citizens. Read this to learn more.
Here's a video from some leading scientists that calls out a real problem in our country: so-called "alternate facts." It's about 25 minutes long, but worth your time.
The COVID-19 pandemic has now killed more Americans than the 1918 Spanish flu, based on the official death count from COVID-19 compared to the estimated fatalities from the 1918 pandemic.
