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Natália Pasternak
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Natalia Pasternak is a microbiologist with a PhD in bacterial genetics and professor of science and policy at Columbia University. She’s founder and current president of Instituto Questão de Ciência (Question of Science Institute).
Pandemic science communication: learning lessons from the life vest uprising
The effectiveness of any public health intervention - whether it's vaccines, masks, or life vests - depends on it being understood by the public.
The science of The Last of Us: should we fear a fungal zombie pandemic?
The hit TV show The Last of Us depicts a world hit by a fungal-caused pandemic that turns the infected to zombies - but could it happen in real life?
Institute Question of Science in Brazil: from fighting pseudoscience to advising governments
IQC - born in response to Bolsanaro and forged in the fight against COVID-19 pseudoscience - aims to establish its permanent place in post-Bolsanaro Brazil
Family Constellation: the pseudoscience retraumatising victims at the approval of Brazilian courts
Brazilian courts are disturbingly fond of Family Constellation, a pseudoscientific form of therapy that pushes blame onto victims, and retraumatises the most vulnerable people
Have Brazilians been effectively immunised against vaccine disinformation?
While health misinformation is rife in Brazil, confidence in vaccines remains extremely high, thanks to decades of public health messaging
‘Prevent Senior’ in Brazil accused of conducting unethical medical experiments on Covid patients
Even after Brazil's "Covid kit" of alternative treatments was shown to be ineffective, doctors were given sales targets to keep prescribing - with official guidance on how to classify away patients who died from Covid.
Closing the information gap on GM technology means addressing fear, as well as ignorance
It’s time to direct our efforts not only to providing scientific knowledge on genetically modified food, but also to addressing people’s fears.
Why I called for the Brazilian Senate to impeach President Bolsanaro over our Covid crisis
Science-based policies can save us from future pandemics. We won't get them by remaining silent when denialism takes over governments.
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