Mistakes and Reversals Shake Trust in Ebola Response, in Dallas and Beyond - 0 views
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Hannah Caspar-Johnson on 20 Oct 14This article shows how paranoia and uncertainty can lead people to use emotion rather than reason as a dominant way of knowing. People in Dallas, and around the world have started believing unproven facts about Ebola, such as it becoming airborne, and have gone to great lengths to avoid all human contact, such as a college student's parents sending her three week's worth of food so she wouldn't have to leave her dorm.