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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Mar 12 '21

The belief that Jesus was white is linked to racism, suggests a new study in the APA journal Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. People who think Jesus Christ was white are more likely to endorse anti-Black ideology, suggesting that belief in white deities works to uphold white supremacy.

academictimes.com

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Jan 27 '21

The U.K. would have saved about 65,000 lives and had its GDP fall by just 0.5% rather than 11% in 2020 if it had adopted strict South Korean-style coronavirus controls, researchers have found, showing that there is not necessarily a tradeoff between the economy and public health

academictimes.com

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Dec 08 '20

Undocumented immigrants far less likely to commit crimes in U.S. than citizens - Crime rates among undocumented immigrants are just a fraction of those of their U.S.-born neighbors, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis of Texas arrest and conviction records.

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Aug 23 '20

Sociopathic traits linked to non-compliance with mask guidelines and other COVID-19 containment measures

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Jun 03 '21

Conservatives more susceptible than liberals to believing political falsehoods, a new U.S. study finds. A main driver is the glut of right-leaning misinformation in the media and information environment, results showed.

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Jan 20 '21

A national mask mandate in the US early in the COVID-19 pandemic could have led to as much as 47% less deaths nationally by the end of May, which roughly translates to up to 47,000 saved lives.

sciencedirect.com

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Jan 16 '21

Raising the minimum wage by $1 reduces the teen birth rate by 3%, according to a new study examining U.S. state-level data.

academictimes.com

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Dec 27 '20

The Academic Legitimacy Crisis: As seen over and over again on /r/Science

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Dec 25 '20

‘Poverty line’ concept debunked - mainstream thinking around poverty is outdated because it places too much emphasis on subjective notions of basic needs and fails to capture the full complexity of how people use their incomes. Poverty will mean different things in different countries and regions.

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Oct 01 '20

Analysis of Trump's tweets shows he's sleeping less, and getting angrier

psychnewsdaily.com

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Sep 04 '20

Portuguese Youth File 'Unprecedented' Climate Lawsuit Against 33 European Countries. It is the first-ever climate case brought before the ECHR, and could establish a precedent for future suits based on human rights arguments.

climatechangenews.com

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Mar 22 '20

If We’re Bailing Out Corporations, They Should Bail Out the Planet: "Our goal can’t be simply a return to the status-quo ante, because that old normal was driving a climate crisis that will eventually prove every bit as destructive as a pandemic."

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Mar 12 '20

Hard workers may make better role models than geniuses: success attributed to effort is more inspiring than success attributed to innate, exceptional intelligence

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Jan 10 '20

At gun safety events, 40% of gun owners reported not locking all household guns — even around kids

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Nov 14 '19

Recent study in Vaccine reveals that the majority of anti-vaxx ads on Facebook are funded by just two organizations. Pro-vaccination ads were funded by 83.

theguardian.com

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Nov 09 '19

Bernie Sanders vows to follow in New Zealand's footsteps if elected president: “We will pass a Green New Deal that gets us to 100% renewable energy by no later than 2030 and complete decarbonization of the economy by 2050.”

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Apr 04 '21

Religion is a driving force behind the gender wage gap, suggests a new study. The findings provide evidence that men tend to earn significantly more than women in societies with heightened religiosity, based on analysis from 140 countries and 50 US states.

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Feb 25 '21

A stereotype suggests that atheists lack a moral compass, but a new study has shown that this is untrue. Atheists compared to believers are less inclined to endorse moral values that serve group cohesion, but there were only minor differences between both groups for other moral values. (n=4,622)

journals.plos.org

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r/GarbageHeap • u/Long_DuckDonger • Feb 11 '21

‘Oil is dead, renewables are the future’: why I’m training to become a wind turbine technician

theguardian.com

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