Is there any evidence that people who recycle also advocate for institutional policy changes to combat man-made climate change?

Note: This post was crossposted from the Coefficient Giving Farm Animal Welfare Research Newsletter by the Forum team, with the author's permission. The author may not see or respond to comments on this post. Subtitle: On vegan advocacy, effective altruism, and FIFA I turn 40 today. Here are some hot takes. On factory farming 1. Our biggest challenge is salience. If factory farming led the evening news, it wouldn’t last lo...

Impressions from the 21st Annual U.S. Cluster Headache Patient Conference, organized by Clusterbusters. On the morning of the last day of the conference, E. was hanging out with other “clusterheads” outside the conference hotel when he started having a cluster headache attack. Before he could go back to his hotel room, J. offered E. his DMT v...

TL;DR:  The movement has an evidence problem. To solve it, for each intervention we need to know: * What types of evidence that intervention needs * What types of evidence different sources can give us In this post, we outline a framework for evidencing an intervention through five stages: ...