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- Recorded webcast
- The Cure to Fake News| Full Frontal on TBS
- Presentation
- @AdamBerinsky
- berinsky@mit.edu
- AHCJ core topic: Health reform
Recorded Feb. 12
What we report on health care – and what our audience sees, reads, or hears aren’t always one and the same. MIT political scientist Adam Berinsky is an expert on public opinion – and what goes wrong. Recently he’s been doing a lot of fascinating research on health policy and health news and has some provocative things to tell reporters about who we trust – versus who the public sees as a trusted communicator. His insights are particularly valuable as we try to debunk myths about vaccines, “death panels” and “blame it on Obamacare.”
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Adam Berinsky, Mitsui Professor of Political Science, MIT
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Moderator: Joanne Kenen, AHCJ core topic leader/health reform
Adam Berinsky is the Mitsui Professor of Political Science at MIT and serves as the director of the MIT Political Experiments Research Lab (PERL). He is also a Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS). Berinsky received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 2000. He is the author of “In Time of War: Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq” (University of Chicago Press, 2009). He is also the author of “Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America” (Princeton University Press, 2004) and has published articles in many journals. He is the co-editor of the Chicago Studies in American Politics book series at the University of Chicago Press. He is the recipient of multiple grants from the National Science Foundation and was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
