Sunday, August 08, 2021

Battling Vaccine Hesitancy: Asking and Not Telling?

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We often hear that science and evidence rarely will change minds when it comes to biotechnology or climate change,  (or vaccine hesitancy). ...
Thursday, August 05, 2021

Rational Irrationality and Behavioral Economic Frameworks for Combating Vaccine Hesitancy

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Background and Introduction Some previous work on vaccine hesitancy related to childhood vaccinations inspired by Caplan's notion of rat...
Saturday, July 10, 2021

Can Capitalism Be A Force For Good When it Comes to Food?

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Great discussion at the AgTech So What podcast about capitalism and food innovation. Probably an innovation that gets the most headlines th...
Saturday, April 24, 2021

The Economics of Innovation in Biopharma

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This podcast touches on the lack of innovation in pharma and criticism about outsourcing innovation. Do these criticisms ignore recent tec...
Saturday, April 03, 2021

Consumer Perceptions, Misinformation, and Vaccine Hesitancy

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In graduate school I focused on how consumer consumption patterns signal social viewpoints, and the role of information and misinformation i...
Saturday, February 06, 2021

The Convergence of AI, Life Sciences, and Healthcare

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Several years ago I was writing about the convergence of AI and genomics in agriculture: "The disruptions of new technology, big data a...
Sunday, October 04, 2020

Using Social Network Analysis to Understand the Influence of Social Harassment Costs and Preferences Toward Biotechnology

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In a previous discussion I described how social harassment costs (Borland and Pulsinelli, 1989) might explain why some consumers could hold ...
Wednesday, July 08, 2020

Consumer Perceptions of Biotechnology: The Role of Information and Social Harassment Costs

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Agricultural biotechnology offers tremendous benefits to farmers and to society as it provides tools for mitigation of a number of environm...