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Susannah Crockford

Susannah Crockford is an anthropologist at the University of Exeter, where she researches cultural understandings of medicine, environment, and religion. Her first book, Ripples of the Universe: Spirituality in Sedona, Arizona, was published in 2021 by the University of Chicago Press, and her second monograph, A Perturbed System: Ethnographic Fragments from the End of a World, is in preparation for the same publisher. She is the editor of Fieldwork in Religion. This publication was made possible through the support of grant #63243 ​from the John Templeton Foundation. Follow on BlueSky: @suscrockford.bsky.social.

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Religion Dispatches
Profits from evangelical “healing farms” have RFK falsely linking school shootings to antidepressants
In his latest broadside, amateur poet (and Health and Human Services Secretary) Robert F. Kennedy Jr has promised “massive studies” to investigate a link between school shootings and antidepressants…
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Religion Dispatches
Weaponizing science to sicken the least of us
Contrary to the beliefs of some in the anti-vaxx world, infectious diseases spread through bacteria and viruses, microscopic organisms that invade our bodies and make us sick. They seem natural…
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Religion Dispatches
Trump Rankled Anti-Vaxx Crowd with Completely Different But Equally Unsupported Autism Link
In a rambling press conference last week, Donald Trump announced that commonly used over-the-counter painkiller Tylenol is “not good.” Specifically addressing pregnant women, Trump repeated “don’t…
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