Covid-19 and Trust in Science (CATS) Project

Welcome to the website for the Covid-19 and Trust in Science (CATS) Project. CATS is housed at the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics at Columbia University, led by Gil Eyal, Cristian Capotescue, and Larry Au. The English-language data collection for CATS is now complete, and was conducted from October to December 2021. We are currently working on the Brazilian arm of CATS from the end of January to April 2022, with the help of collaborator Renan Gonçalves Leonel da Silva (ETH Zurich).

Inequality

Effectiveness in the responses to the pandemic is strongly related to the social cohesion levels in the societies. Then, how can we measure the impact of international recommended actions in places where isolation is not an option?

By Yan Marcelo, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil.
Source: UOL/Folha Online

Expertise

What is gonna be the future of expert knowledge? The answer has more to do with how they communicate science than how they produce it.

By Joel Saget/AFP/JC

Source: Jornal do Comércio.

Living with the pandemic in the cities

Living (and dying) at the cities became a real concern, from young adults to elderly individuals and professionals. But, under the rules of the pandemic, is it the same to live in New York City, São Paulo, or London? Maybe you'll start to listen more to what your parents say and think twice about that great job opportunity with no healthcare coverage.

By Victor J. Blue

Source: The New York Times

Solidarity

Solidarity is a very important mechanism to overcome even worse disasters of the COVID-19 worldwide. In Brazil, it greatly diminished the negative impacts of the pandemic and an even broader disaster in public health.

By Pliar Olivares, Favela da Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro - RJ, Brazil.

Source: Reuters

Isolation

Physically distancing was a necessary, but inconvenient, response adopted by societies in the coronavirus outbreak. But how did that change our perception of ourselves in terms of personal and professional living in society?

By Victor Moriyama, Copan Building, São Paulo - SP, Brazil.
Source: The New York Times

Agnotology

The production of ignorance by citizens and political leaders has been an interesting sociological phenomenon of the 2020's coronavirus crisis. In this process, we clearly face the dynamic of an agnotological society - an instable sociotechnical network involving fake news, social media, virtual misinformation activism, biased journalists, far-right protests, and other relevant movements in digital life.

Source: Blasting News