The Brazilian Scientific Denialism Through The American Journal of Medicine

Abstract

american-journal-of-medicine-defende-tratamento-preventivo-para-covid. Accessed January 15, 2021.

Involvement of political and socio-economic factors in the spatial and temporal dynamics of COVID-19 outcomes in Brazil: A population-based study

“…The practices implemented by the federal government were essentially through ‘medical demagogy’ and included: (i) the propagation of conspiracy theories about the origins of SARS-CoV-2; (ii) the consistent (since March 2020) defiance about the severity of pandemics, with the president declaring on TV that ‘it's just the flu’ 14 ; (iii) the ‘repositioning’ of pre-existent drugs such as chloroquine, hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 patients through the so-called ‘kit-covid’ 15 , 16 ; (iv) the frequent changes in the Ministry of Health (four in total) in less than a year resulting from disagreements between the current administration and Ministers of Health, especially on the push to implement ineffective drugs for COVID-19 treatment; and (v ) the delay in acquisition and denial about the effectiveness of vaccines for controlling COVID-19. As a result of the disastrous management of COVID-19 by the Brazilian Ministry of Health, a parliamentary committee of inquiry established by the Senate has confirmed the hypothesis that President Jair Bolsonaro deliberately spread COVID-19 among the population, allegedly to accelerate herd immunity.…”

Negacionismo científico no currículo de Biologia do Novo Ensino Médiodo Estado de Minas Gerais>:

“…Cabe lembrar que os documentos oficiais para os currículos mineiros, assim como para os de outros estados e municípios, não podem alterar ou remover as competências e habilidades previstas no nível nacional, apenas acrescentar outras, que corroboram para a normatização e a regulação centralizada do trabalho docente (BARBOSA, 2020). Cientes disso, acionamos os trabalhos de Latour (2020), de Azevedo e Borba (2020), de Vilela e Selles (2020), de Cassiani, Selles e Ostermann (2022) e de Silva (2023a;2023b;2021), como contribuições para as análises desenvolvidas. Na seção seguinte, apresentaremos os principais resultados e discussões produzidas a partir desses diálogos e do processo investigativo, destacando trechos considerados emblemáticos dos documentos oficiais a fim de agregar empiria ao debate proposto.…”

“…Apesar de a verificação de notícias falsas e a identificação de informações inverosímeis serem dimensões pragmáticas do enfrentamento ao negacionismo científico, isso não basta para formar cientificamente as juventudes para combatê-lo. Por sua vez, os estudos de Silva (2023a;2023b;2021) Com isso, o ensino de Biologia não pode se limitar a mostrar como usar agências de checagens de informações ou fazer levantamentos para verificar se algo é verdadeiro ou falso. O exercício dessas habilidadesainda que não seja desnecessáriono nível técnico proposto pelas orientações curriculares fixa-se na superficialidade pedagógica e, assim, desencoraja o investimento sobre a autonomia intelectual, crítica e cidadã da população.…”

Preventing the Next Pandemic: The Case for Investing in Circulatory Health – A Global Coalition for Circulatory Health Position Paper

“…The severity of the disease, the initial uncertainty, absence of adequate evidence about its natural history, prevention, therapies, and unprecedented restrictions on modern social life together, contributed to the difficulties. Furthermore, the distribution of unfounded and unproven recommendations on social media fuelled by political agendas, conspiracy theorists as well as ill-informed or opportunistic doctors and scientists, has created a very difficult situation for health authorities, governments, and health care practitioners [14,15]. Specifically, inadequate evidence has led to use of ineffective and possibly harmful therapies and failure to use masks and maintain social distancing may have cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide [16,17].…”