Seth Kalichman

Seth C. Kalichman is a clinical community psychologist and professor of social psychology at the University of Connecticut, who researches HIV/AIDS prevention and care.

Seth Kalichman
OccupationProfessor
Known forSexual Compulsivity Scale
Academic background
InfluencesNicoli Nattrass
Academic work
Era21st century
DisciplineSocial psychology
Sub-disciplineCommunity psychologist
InstitutionsUniversity of Connecticut
Main interestsHIV/AIDS
Notable worksDenying AIDS: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy

Kalichman is the director of the Southeast HIV/AIDS Research & Education Project in Atlanta, Georgia and Cape Town, South Africa; the editor of the journal AIDS and Behavior; and the author of Denying AIDS: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy, an examination of HIV/AIDS denialism.[1][2][3][4] Royalties from the book fund antiretroviral drugs for people with HIV/AIDS in Africa.[3]

Kalichman spent a year infiltrating HIV denialist groups. He argues that denialism is often a coping strategy, and that followers are often anti-government, anti-establishment, and prone to cognitive distortions; he says that leaders in denialism exhibit paranoid personality disorder.[3][5] He began researching denialism after reading the work of Nicoli Nattrass.[3]

He is the developer of the Sexual Compulsivity Scale.[6]

Works
  • 2018 Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science "HIV Does Not Cause AIDS': A Journey into AIDS Denialism":MIT Press: edited by Allison B. Kaufman, James C. Kaufman: ISBN 9780262037426[7]
gollark: Let's design an alphabet with an arbitrarily large number of letters so all differences can be defined that way!
gollark: UV is hundreds of THz and up. Radio goes up to... I don't know it's defined exactly, but GHz.
gollark: And UV is a very very different frequency.
gollark: The *sun* emits UV, for one thing.
gollark: On antennae, I'm pretty sure it would do nothing at all.

References
  1. Lemelle, Anthony (September 2009). "Seth Kalichman, Denying AIDS: Conspiracy Theories, Pseudoscience, and Human Tragedy". Journal of African American Studies. Springer New York. 13 (3): 361–364. doi:10.1007/s12111-009-9098-1. ISSN 1936-4741.
  2. Moore, John P. (14 May 2009). "The dangers of denying HIV". Nature. 459 (7244): 168. Bibcode:2009Natur.459..168M. doi:10.1038/459168a.
  3. Wortman, James (3 August 2009). "Debunking the "Beehive" of AIDS Denialism". POZ. Retrieved 17 July 2010.
  4. Palmquist, Matt (3 November 2009). "Looking Back In Anger". Miller-McCune. Archived from the original on 6 November 2009. Retrieved 10 November 2009.
  5. MacKenzie, Deborah (19 May 2010). "Living in denial: Why sensible people reject the truth". New Scientist. Retrieved 17 July 2010.
  6. Seth C. Kalichman; David Rompa. "The Sexual Compulsivity Scale:Further Development and Use With HIV-Positive Persons". Archived 24 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  7. Bigliardi, Stefano (2019). "The Advocates of Pseudoscience Are Not Monsters - but Pseudoscience Is". Skeptical Inquirer. Center for Inquiry. 43 (6): 58–59.


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