The story of the AIDS movement is one of regular people: students, bartenders, stay-at-home mothers, teachers, retired ...

Some had lost friends or lovers. Some felt a moral calling. Some were just trying to balance their sexual karma. Many were angry. Most had no medical background or professional credentials – just a ...

Weeks later, thousands of health workers are unemployed, HIV services are collapsing and the government hasn’t filled the gap ...

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Media-invented moral panics are nothing new. What sets apart the modern-day Nazi moral panic, however, is that it has achieved “evergreen” status. It can be easily dusted off and deployed on a ...

However, he warned against moral panic in the predominantly Catholic country ... In 2023, delayed diagnoses contributed to 1,700 AIDS-related deaths, despite global advancements in treatment ...

That’s called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon. It just happened to me with the phrase “moral panic.” A moral panic is a mass movement based on a false or exaggerated perception that something ...

The moral panic over a scene of drag queens feasting at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics set off a firestorm of outrage from religious conservatives and politicians who believed the ...

This is a phenomenon known as moral panic; new media or technology touches off an extreme fear reaction by older generations, including policymakers. These past panics can seem self-evidently silly.

We are living in the age of moral panic. We look around, we see a problem, and we rush to outlaw something. Ban TikTok! cry members of Congress. Ban social media for kids! says the state of Florida.