Employing recent research results covering pervasive misinformation, COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, and lack of trust in science, and building our argument by drawing on data collected from Horizon Research, KFF, OECD, and RSC, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding COVID-19 vaccine attitudes and behaviors. Descriptive statistics of compiled data from the completed surveys were calculated when appropriate. © 2021, Addleton Academic Publishers. All rights reserved.
The purpose of this study was to empirically examine COVID-19 threat perceptions and willingness to get vaccinated in relation to efficacy, safety, and trust concerns. Building my argument by drawing on data collected from ASPE, CBS, Hertfordshire County Council, KFF, OECD, Pew Research Center, Purpose, UN, and University of Florida/CPIC, I performed analyses and made estimates regarding attitudes and intentions toward COVID-19 vaccination during such a public health crisis. Descriptive statistics of compiled data from the completed surveys were calculated when appropriate. © 2021, Addleton Academic Publishers. All rights reserved.
We develop a conceptual framework based on a systematic and comprehensive literature review on whether it is ethically and legally acceptable for governments to require citizens to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Building our argument by drawing on data collected from Ada Lovelace Institute, Ipsos, McKinsey, Morning Consult, The Serco Institute, and Survation, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding attitudes, behaviors, and perceptions towards mandatory COVID-19 vaccination. The data for this research were gathered via an online survey questionnaire. Descriptive statistics of compiled data from the completed surveys were calculated when appropriate. © 2021, Addleton Academic Publishers. All rights reserved.
The aim of this paper is to synthesize and analyze existing evidence on the language of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and public health misinformation in relation to distrust, unwillingness, and uncertainty. Using and replicating data from CEAL, Healthwatch Bexley, KFF, MissionSquare Research Institute, MSDH/ OPHHE, OECD, Pandemic Action Network, and WHO, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding COVID-19 vaccine acceptance, hesitancy, and resistance. Descriptive statistics of compiled data from the completed surveys were calculated when appropriate. © 2021, Addleton Academic Publishers. All rights reserved.
Despite the relevance of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, delay, and refusal in relation to insufficient knowledge, complacency, and distrust of the medical system, only limited research has been conducted on this topic. Using and replicating data from The Aspen Institute, de Beaumont, Healthwatch Bexley, Hertfordshire County Council, Horizon Research, KFF, and Sabin Vaccine Institute, I performed analyses and made estimates regarding COVID-19 threat perceptions and vaccine hesitancy. The results of a study based on data collected from 6,400 respondents provide support for my research model. Descriptive statistics of compiled data from the completed surveys were calculated when appropriate. © 2021, Addleton Academic Publishers. All rights reserved.
This article presents an empirical study carried out to evaluate and analyze green finance for low-carbon energy, sustainable economic development, and climate change mitigation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Building my argument by drawing on data collected from NGFS and UN, I performed analyses and made estimates regarding the transition to a low-carbon/sustainable economy. Data collected from 6,500 respondents are tested against the research model. Descriptive statistics of compiled data from the completed surveys were calculated when appropriate. © 2021, Addleton Academic Publishers. All rights reserved.
This paper analyzes the outcomes of an exploratory review of the current research on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in relation to misperception, distress, and skepticism. The data used for this study was obtained and replicated from previous research conducted by ASPE, Healthwatch Bexley, KFF, Pew Research Center, and WHO. I performed analyses and made estimates regarding drivers of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, reluctance, and refusal. Data collected from 6,600 respondents are tested against the research model. Descriptive statistics of compiled data from the completed surveys were calculated when appropriate. © 2021, Addleton Academic Publishers. All rights reserved.
Empirical evidence on COVID-19 vaccine risk beliefs, perceptions, attitudes, and intentions has been scarcely documented in the literature. Using and replicating data from CBS, CEAL, KFF, McKinsey, MSDH/OPHHE, OCHCA, and WHO, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding hesitancy in getting a COVID-19 vaccine. Descriptive statistics of compiled data from the completed surveys were calculated when appropriate. © 2021, Addleton Academic Publishers. All rights reserved.
Based on an in-depth survey of the literature, the purpose of the paper is to explore COVID-19 vaccine education as regards behavioral and socio-demographic factors related to vaccine uptake and hesitancy. Using and replicating data from Horizon Research, Jones et al. (2021), KFF, and WHO, I performed analyses and made estimates regarding perceptual barriers to widespread COVID-19 vaccination. Descriptive statistics of compiled data from the completed surveys were calculated when appropriate. © 2021, Addleton Academic Publishers. All rights reserved.
We draw on a substantial body of theoretical and empirical research on hesitancy towards receiving a COVID-19 vaccine in terms of concerns about side effects and safety, mistrust in government and health authorities, and perceived susceptibility and severity of the virus, and to explore this, we inspected, used, and replicated survey data from The British Academy, CEAL, de Beaumont, Jones et al. (2021), KFF, Medscape, MSDH/OPHHE, The Royal Society, Tegan and Sara Foun-dation, and W2O, performing analyses and making estimates regarding COVID-19 vaccine perceptions, attitudes and behaviors. Descriptive statistics of compiled data from the completed surveys were calculated when appropriate. © 2021, Addleton Academic Publishers. All rights reserved.
Employing recent research results covering addictive behavior of problematic smartphone users, and building our argument by drawing on data collected from AARP, The Center for Internet and Technology Addiction, ExactTarget, MarketingCharts, and Pew Research Center, the authors performed analyses and made estimates regarding the relationship between depression, anxiety, and stress. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the collected data.
We draw on a substantial body of theoretical and empirical research on regulating fake news content during COVID-19 pandemic, and to explore this, we inspected, used, and replicated survey data from Pew Research Center and Statista, performing analyses and making estimates regarding finding reliable news and information for updates on COVID-19 and role of social media companies according to Internet users Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data and test the proposed conceptual model
The paper sketches the context in which Einstein and Freud’s joint publi-cation Why War? appeared under the auspices of the League of Nations in 1933. Instead of the authors’ holding a lack of rationality and the human proclivity for aggression responsible, the paper emphasizes the increasingly precarious relation between the observable historical situation of the late Weimar Republic (its Wahrnehmungswelt) and its imagined counterpart (Vorstellungswelt). A summary analysis of Einstein’s and Freud’s arguments is followed by an overview of the broadly accepted historical situation of the Weimar Republic from 1929 to 1933. By contrast, the Weimar Republic is then viewed in terms of the dominant senti-ments of the day, against which Einstein’s and Freud’s explanatory strategy looks unsatis-factory. Foregrounding the human capacity of imaginability, the Conclusion replaces their emphasis on reason and instinct by the claim that under certain circumstances the Wahrnehmungswelt itself becomes irrelevant, instead becoming subservient to the imagined world. When the discrepancy between an actual historical situation and the imagined com-munity becomes unbridgeable, anything, including the option of war, becomes preferable to the status quo. © 2020, Addleton Academic Publishers. All rights reserved.
After decades of intense debate over the old pessimistic induction (Laudan, 1977; Putnam, 1978), it has now become clear that it has at least the following four problems. First, it overlooks the fact that present theories are more successful than past theories. Second, it commits the fallacy of biased statistics. Third, it erroneously groups together past theories from different fields of science. Four, it misses the fact that some theoretical components of past theories were preserved. I argue that these four problems entitle us to construct what I call the grand pessimistic induction that since the old pessimistic induction has infinitely many hidden problems, the new pessimistic induction (Stanford, 2006) also has infinitely many hidden problems.
1. IntroductionBeauvoir holds that woman should be grasped on the foundation of her possibilities and not on the foundation of her constraints. Sex and reproduction entail a desire, an anger, and a displeasure which defy all attempts at being policed. While women require a novel status, they are far from having attained it and the institutions of patriarchy are mainly unharmed. Numerous women wage earners should sense the right to work as simply a responsibility from which marriage will provide them. Marriage is an institution the purpose of which is to make the economic and sexual fusion of man and woman satisfy the concerns of society (Devine, 2015), not to guarantee their shared happiness. Even where there is an insignificant age dissimilarity between the spouses, there is an incompatibility established perpetually into marriage. The intricacies and threats attendant on sexual initiation and sexual exploration can be overwhelmed if both partners unreservedly give themselves to each other. (Mahon, 1997)2. Beauvoir's Analysis of Female SubjectivityBeauvoir highlights the typical imaginative shortcomings of men and their propensity to be unsuccessful in attaining the relevant aim of empathy: they cannot accept the rightful and mutual standing of the other who is a woman. Women and men are entangled in a frequently terrible mechanism of becoming human (Constantin, 2015a, b) that has been bewildered by men or within societies controlled by them in such a manner as to protect and maintain a gendered superiority. The endeavor to be an unbound subject (Godlewski, 2015) and not the object of some other person's disposition is the significant one that numerous women cannot preserve. Women are deceived inside the wicked commitment of men who decide on undertaking a conventional type of female adulation. Women and men are both trapped in a type of contest of shared self-objectification - having either the function of the ma n who is existentially unbound or the function of the woman who should proclaim him as such. (Jasper, 2012) As Beauvoir puts it, marriage is the predetermination customarily provided to women by society, and has been a distinct feature for each of the sexes, indicating the uneven standing of men and women. In marrying, a woman attains an appendant status, becoming an appendage of her husband. Marriage signifies for the man an appropriate mixture of immanence and transcendence. For a woman, marriage is a beneficial career (Wen, 2015) as the remaining career choices are so troublesome: her husband signifies capital which she is allowed to use. Fulfilling the sexual demands of her husband is a service which his wife supplies. (Mahon, 1997)Beauvoir favors a heterosexual sexuality and relationality in her fiction, and claims that men and women cannot beneficially and legitimately jeopardize defenselessness (Planells-Struse, 2015) with regard to each other if the one is in a submissive connection to the other. Women are self-thwarting, weakened by their opposition to themselves besides more evident kinds of sexual subservience. Preconception in r elation to women is a converging acceptance by the biased agent both of women's self-determination and of the preconception. Negating another's self-determination (Petcu, 2015) entails the concurrent acceptance of the other's self-determination. Women's factual subjection b ega n with their ha ving b een subjugated to the r epr oduct ive demands of the species and thus to command by immanence and recurrence. Women are subjugated by requirements that they will pursue a maternity that is fallow and animal-like. (Deutscher, 2008) When Beauvoir portrays sexual initiation, she narrates an entire range of various manners to live it that are subject to the broad cultural situation and the particular situation of a distinct woman. Femininity is neither a substance nor an essence but a becoming. Women's situations have commonly been typified by lesser likelihoods. …
IntroductionA cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction ...The cyborg is our ontology, it gives us our politics ... cyborg is also awful apocalyptic telos of West's escalating dominations ... (Haraway, 1990, p. 192).After I had read Donna Haraway's pivotal work A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in 1980s I was faced with an unsettling and dark realization. We are all cyborgs, a hybridized form of human and machine, programmed and encrypted with cultural codes of our times. Counter to Haraway, however, I believe that there is no emancipatory or celebratory potential in cyborg. There is no one good thing about techno-culture, shadow - that lurks in our unconscious. No matter how much we try and escape confines of our culture we are mere products of capitalist West longing for itself. We reproduce traditions of domination and exploitation even while we imagine a better world based on progress, democracy, and technological advancement for betterment of humankind. We are contradictions of ourselves; forms of good and evil carrying out an ill-fated and tragic capitalist trajectory.I got up restlessly and looked in mirror and took in my biological form and I felt ashamed looking at myself. I scratched my skin and watched red welts appear, resisting impulse to make my blood run. I am relentlessly biological and a human. Underneath my skin lurk not only veins, blood, organs - but also impossibly - of cyborg. What was staring back at me? Such thoughts reminded me of philosopher Jacques Derrida's own unease (naked and ashamed) to find himself under gaze of animal (a cat) while he showered. As Derrida says, to consider the other raises critical questions about who we are (Derrida, 2002). But what if other, image in mirror is not yourself, but cyborg? How can we live with ourselves knowing that machine lurks within?In this paper I will use auto-ethnography to problematize how capitalist processes of production and consumption form basis of our consciousness, turning us into cyborgs who are capable of reducing animals to commodities and objects to possess, consume and dispose of at will. As Dinesh Wadiwel suggests, [f]actory farming and industrialised slaughter ... enable a monstrous deployment of of violence and extermination. The scale of death defies imagination (Wadiwel, 2009, p. 283). I am suggesting that through concept of cyborg we can begin to understand how technologies of violence and extermination are technocultural systems that interpolate us. In words, they become us and we become them. We are living our lives through a violent culture. We are cyborgs at on borders with animals - nonhuman other.Indeed, since advent of modern Western science, industrialized agriculture and capitalist production patterns, humans have oppressed animals on such a grand scale and with a calculated violence never before seen. Each year literally billions of animals globally are killed for human consumption and systematically tortured in scientific experiments and and cultural activities each year (Weisberg, 2009). Dinesh Wadiwel (2009) has gone so far as to call this a war against animals; and even a brief perusal of statistics would make it difficult to disagree with his sentiment. Recent data from US Department of Agriculture suggests that in United States alone, approximately 34 million cows, 116 million pigs, 272 million turkeys and a staggering nine billion chickens were killed in 2008 (Wadiwel, 2009, p. 283). Wadiwel (2009) recounts similar devastating statistics from Australia. In New Zealand I will add statistic of 2 million tiny new born calves, sent yearly to their untimely deaths.My academic writing in field of critical animal studies is central to my abolitionist animal rights activism. …
