Lee Mcintyre
Biographic Data
| ID | 440223 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Mcintyre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcintyre |
| SIGNATURE | MCINTYRE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0607-8151 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 82 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 82 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A proposed research agenda for the study of educational inequities in diet quality
Educational attainment is a key determinant of diet quality. The overarching pathways (i.e. theories and mechanisms) through which educational attainment shapes diet quality remain largely unexplored in the nutrition literature, and the most salient pathways likely differ across time, populations and socio-economic and political contexts. This commentary proposes a research agenda and outlines methodological considerations that are intended to be…
The Household Food Security Survey Module, as Used in Canada, is a Policy-Sensitive Indicator of Both Material Deprivation and Social Exclusion
This paper examines the post-implementation evolution of food insecurity measurement in Canada using the Household Food Security Survey Module (HFSSM) as a deprivation indicator. Widely accepted as a reliable and valid indicator, here, we examine the question: An indicator of what? Following an overview on the design of the HFSSM measure which focuses on its disciplinary and theoretical foundations, we review Canadian empirical literature employi…
Food (In)Security Policy in Canada (and Likely Elsewhere) has been Derailed by Attention to Food Access
This paper contends that the intractability of food insecurity as a social policy issue may have arisen in part because food access has become central to the interpretation of what is required to be food secure. We revisit key features of the evolution of the right to food and examine developments in the instruments used to monitor right to food progress. We articulate how the materiality of food access has come to the forefront of food systems p…
Liars know they are lying: Differentiating disinformation from disagreement
Mis- and disinformation pose substantial societal challenges, and have thus become the focus of a substantive field of research. However, the field of misinformation research has recently come under scrutiny on two fronts. First, a political response has emerged, claiming that misinformation research aims to censor conservative voices. Second, some scholars have questioned the utility of misinformation research altogether, arguing that misinforma…
Public policy interventions to mitigate household food insecurity in Canada: A systematic review
Objective: The objective of this systematic review is to synthesise the evidence on public policy interventions and their ability to reduce household food insecurity (HFI) in Canada. Design: Four databases were searched up to October 2023. Only studies that reported on public policy interventions that might reduce HFI were included, regardless of whether that was the primary purpose of the study. Title and abstract screening, full-text screening,…
On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth and Protect Democracy
A powerful, pocket-sized citizen's guide on how to fight back against the disinformation campaigns that are imperiling American democracy, from the bestselling author of Post-Truth and How to Talk to a Science Denier. The effort to destroy facts and make America ungovernable didn't come out of nowhere. It is the culmination of seventy years of strategic denialism. In On Disinformation, Lee McIntyre shows how the war on facts began, and how ordina…
Introduction to the volume
Introduction to the volume
The Hidden Dangers of Fake News in Post-Truth Politics
The Hidden Dangers of Fake News in Post-Truth Politics
The problem of “fake news” is an important aspect of post-truth politics. Despite calls to abandon the term—based on fears that Trump has corrupted it through partisanship and claiming credit for its invention—there is truly such a thing as fake news, which is the creation and dissemination of news claims that are intentionally false. The obvious danger is that someone might take a fake story for real, causing us to believe a falsehood (such as t…
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
Can we change the minds of science deniers? Encounters with flat earthers, anti-vaxxers, coronavirus truthers, and others. “Climate change is a hoax—and so is coronavirus.” “Vaccines are bad for you.” These days, many of our fellow citizens reject scientific expertise and prefer ideology to facts. They are not merely uninformed—they are misinformed. They cite cherry-picked evidence, rely on fake experts, and believe conspiracy theories. How can w…
Science denial, post‐truth and our new dark age: Lee McIntyre interviewed by Richard Marshall
In this edited version of an interview run at 3:16 am earlier this year to mark the publication of his new book How To Talk To A Science Denier, Lee McIntyre discusses: science denial, its dangers, what to do about it, why it should not be tolerated; the demarcation question; whether social sciences are really sciences; why we should focus on the failures of science; post-truth; why philosophy of science is useful; whether scientific laws exist; …
Wir lieben Wissenschaft: Mit einer wissenschaftlichen Grundhaltung gegen Betrug, Leugnung und Pseudowissenschaft
Framing analysis: Its usefulness as a tool for advocacy on public health nutrition problems
Framing analysis: its usefulness as a tool for advocacy on public health nutrition problems Public health nutrition remains a place where empirical work about natural phenomena (e.g., nutrients) co-exists with studies interrogating how meaning is constructed. Framing is a process by which people orient their thinking about a problem Framing analysis could thus be helpful to public health nutrition professionals seeking to mitigate health problems…
The application of 'valence' to the idea of household food insecurity in Canada
Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction
Any serious student attempting to better understand the nature, methods, and justification of science will value Alex Rosenberg and Lee McIntyre’s updated and substantially revised fourth edition of Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction. Weaving lucid explanations with clear analyses, the volume is a much- used, thematically oriented introduction to the field. The fourth edition has been thoroughly rewritten based on instructor and s…
Laws and Explanation in the Social Sciences: Defending a Science of Human Behavior
The first full-length defense of social scientific laws to appear in the last twenty years, this book upholds the prospect of the nomological explanation of human behavior against those who maintain that this approach is impossible, impractical, or irrelevant. By pursuing an analogy with the natural sciences, Mclntyre shows that the barriers to nomological inquiry within the social sciences are not generated by factors unique to social inquiry, b…
Post-Truth
How we arrived in a post-truth era, when “alternative facts” replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence.Are we living in a post-truth world, where “alternative facts” replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of “fake ne…
The household food insecurity gradient and potential reductions in adverse population mental health outcomes in Canadian adults
Household food insecurity has a pervasive graded negative effect on a variety of mental health outcomes, in which significantly higher levels of food insecurity are associated with a higher risk of adverse mental health outcomes. Reduction of food insecurity, particularly at the severe level, is a public health concern and a modifiable structural determinant of health worthy of macro-level policy intervention
A natural experimental study of the protective effect of home ownership on household food insecurity in Canada before and after a recession (2008–2009)
Political rhetoric from Canada can inform healthy public policy argumentation
Household food insecurity (HFI), insufficient income to obtain adequate food, is a growing problem in Canada and other Organisation of economic cooperation and development (OECD) countries. Government political orientations impact health policies and outcomes. We critically examined Canadian political rhetoric around HFI from 1995 to 2012 as a means to support effective healthy public policy argumentation. We analysed a data set comprised of Hans…
A trip to Mount Everest: Looking for the laws of scientific change
A great or heinous idea: Why food waste diversion renders policy discussants apoplectic
Comprehensive agri-food policy includes food waste reduction as an important policy goal. Food bank donor indemnification is codified in law in several countries to support the charitable food sector. Other policy instruments to address waste reduction have emerged recently, among them tax measures to incentivize private sector action. These have been increasingly linked to the discourse on hunger in many jurisdictions. We asked 17 Canadian food …
(Not) getting political: Indigenous women and preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in West Papua
This paper builds on critiques that call for a more nuanced and contextualised understanding of conditions that affect HIV prevention by looking at West Papuan women's experiences of prevention of mother-to-child transmission services. Drawing on qualitative, ethnographic research with indigenous women and health workers, the paper demonstrates that women experience poor-quality HIV education and counselling, and that indigenous practices and con…
A framing analysis of Canadian household food insecurity policy illustrates co-construction of an intractable problem
Household food insecurity (HFI), lack of access to food because of financial constraint, is a persistent and growing problem in Canada. Framing theorists Donald Schön and Martin Rein explain that in ‘intractable policy controversies’, policy issues that are particularly stubborn or resistant to change, the frames policy actors apply permit them to talk past each other without resolution. This paper examines how HFI is framed in Canadian legislati…
Feeling Poor: The Felt Experience Low-Income Lone Mothers
This article describes what it means to feel poor from the perspective of low-income lone mothers. The construct of feeling poor is complex and multifaceted for these mothers, whose common behaviors include self-sacrifice and coping. The authors identify 10 feeling domains for these mothers: feeling deprived, righteous, the need for occupational choice, relatively better positioned than others, the need to manage the appearance of poverty, judged…
In”-sights about food banks from a critical interpretive synthesis of the academic literature
Reduction of Food Insecurity among Low-Income Canadian Seniors as a Likely Impact of a Guaranteed Annual Income
Canada has episodically discussed guaranteed annual income (GAI) as a poverty reduction strategy, and the idea has garnered renewed attention. We investigate the potential effectiveness of such a strategy by examining food insecurity as an indicator of poverty in unattached low-income adults age 55 to 74 years before and after they become age-eligible for publicly financed pensions at age 65. Results from the Canadian Community Health Survey (200…
Evidence of the Association between Household Food Insecurity and Heating Cost Inflation in Canada, 1998–2001
We investigated the 5.3 percentage point increase in the prevalence of food insecurity in Canada between the National Population Health Survey of 1998–99 and the Canadian Community Health Survey of 2000–01. We found that the increase in food insecurity occurred disproportionately in households in the western provinces, particularly Alberta, and among homeowners rather than renters. Inter-provincial variation in heating cost inflation explained as…
Food Insecurity of Low-income Lone Mothers and Their Children in Atlantic Canada
Household Food Insecurity in Canada: Problem Definition and Potential Solutions in the Public Policy Domain
The objective of this study was to bring to light legislators' construction of household food insecurity using a data set of debate texts from the Hansard records of four Canadian jurisdictions over approximately the last two decades. We found that legislators' fundamental problematization of food insecurity was one of insufficient income but that certain groups were of greater policy concern than others. Proposals to address food insecurity link…
A Holistic Model for the Selection of Environmental Assessment Indicators to Assess the Impact of Industrialization on Indigenous Health
Food provisioning experiences of ultra poor female heads of household living in Bangladesh
Children’s Feeding Programs in Atlantic Canada: Reducing or Reproducing Inequities
The Case for the Philosophy of Chemistry
Exploratory analysis of children's nutrition programs in Canada
Impact of a guaranteed annual income program on Canadian seniors’ physical, mental and functional health
A Path Analysis of Recurrently Food-Insecure Canadians Discerns Employment, Income, and Negative Health Effects
This study examined the determinants of recurrent food insecurity as an indicator of persistent poverty. Cohort data were extracted from 1998 to 1999 to 2006 to 2007 of the Canadian National Population Health Survey. A path analysis model examined the direct effects of sociodemographic, employment, and health variables on being recurrently food insecure (one third of the cohort), and their indirect effects mediated through permanent income. Path …
Coping With Child Hunger in Canada: Have Household Strategies Changed Over a Decade
The dragnet of children's feeding programs in Atlantic Canada
Farmwomen's Discourses on Family Food Provisioning: Gender, Healthism, and Risk Avoidance
This paper examines the dominant discourses utilized by 21 farmwomen with children in three regions of Canada in relation to their talk of household food provisioning. We define food provisioning as the acquisition, preparation, and consumption of food that draws on personal, family, and community resources and supports. Farmwomen expressed their position as gatekeeper of the family meal through traditional gender role discourses. Feeding their f…
Homeowner versus non-homeowner differences in household food insecurity in Canada
Your father is no more”: Insights on guardianship and abandonment from ultrapoor women heads of household in Bangladesh
Why should I feed her less?”: Challenging assumptions on daughter discrimination in the food provisioning values of ultrapoor Bangladeshi female heads of household
Discomforting comfort foods: Stirring the pot on Kraft Dinner® and social inequality in Canada
The Sociodemographic Predictors of Smoking Cessation Among Pregnant Women in Canada
The application of 'valence' to the idea of household food insecurity in Canada
Rabies in a Calgary Puppy Adopted From the Arctic
Intentionality, Pluralism, and Redescription
Donald Davidson, and others, have sometimes claimed that the subject matter of social science properly consists only of intentional actions. The author disputes this claim and explores an example drawn from social psychology that shows that some social scientific phenomena cannot be explained unless they are redescribed in nonintentional language
Complexity and social scientific laws
Exploratory analysis of children's nutrition programs in Canada
Complexity and social scientific laws
The Case for the Philosophy of Chemistry
Davidson And Social Scientific Laws
The Sociodemographic Predictors of Smoking Cessation Among Pregnant Women in Canada
Children’s Feeding Programs in Atlantic Canada: Reducing or Reproducing Inequities
The dragnet of children's feeding programs in Atlantic Canada
J. D. Trout, Measuring the Intentional World . Oxford: Oxford University Press (1998), 302 pp
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Supervenience and Explanatory Exclusion
This paper argues that there is an inconsistency between Jaegwon Kim's earlier work on supervenience and his more recent work on explanatory exclusion. In his work on supervenience Kim advocates an explanatory agnosticism that, by the time of his later work, is replaced by an endorsement of reductive explanation. My argument is that this tension between Kim's early and later work is unfortunate since explanatory exclusion is highly questionable i…
Food Insecurity of Low-income Lone Mothers and Their Children in Atlantic Canada
The failure of charitable school- and community-based nutrition programmes to feed hungry children
Growing rates of child poverty in Canada and recognition of relationships among poverty, compromised nutrition, health and educational opportunities have led to a proliferation of child-feeding programmes. The purpose of this paper is to explore the contributions of charitable school- and community-based nutrition programmes toward meeting their goal of feeding hungry children through a critical ethnography of nine diverse programmes in Atlantic …
The ‘wonderfulness’ of children’s feeding programs
When people involved in children's feeding programs were asked to describe them, without exception they were described using phrases that reflected the perception of 'wonderfulness'. This paper critically analyses the 'wonderfulness' of children's feeding programs by examining the language used to describe these programs, and the features of a 'wonderful' program through an analysis of a multi-site, qualitative case study of nine diverse programs…
The failure of charitable school- and community-based nutrition programmes to feed hungry children
Growing rates of child poverty in Canada and recognition of relationships among poverty, compromised nutrition, health and educational opportunities have led to a proliferation of child-feeding programmes. The purpose of this paper is to explore the contributions of charitable school- and community-based nutrition programmes toward meeting their goal of feeding hungry children through a critical ethnography of nine diverse programmes in Atlantic …
Feeling Poor: The Felt Experience Low-Income Lone Mothers
This article describes what it means to feel poor from the perspective of low-income lone mothers. The construct of feeling poor is complex and multifaceted for these mothers, whose common behaviors include self-sacrifice and coping. The authors identify 10 feeling domains for these mothers: feeling deprived, righteous, the need for occupational choice, relatively better positioned than others, the need to manage the appearance of poverty, judged…
Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry; Philosophy of Chemistry
Book Review| January 01 2003 Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry; Philosophy of Chemistry Nalini Bhushan and Stuart Rosenfeld, eds., Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 299.J. Van Brakel, Philosophy of Chemistry. Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2000. Pp.xiv, 246. Lee McIntyre Lee McIntyre Search for other works by this author on: T…
Children's feeding programs in Atlantic Canada: Some Foucauldian theoretical concepts in action
Intentionality, Pluralism, and Redescription
Donald Davidson, and others, have sometimes claimed that the subject matter of social science properly consists only of intentional actions. The author disputes this claim and explores an example drawn from social psychology that shows that some social scientific phenomena cannot be explained unless they are redescribed in nonintentional language
Welfare babies: Poor children's experiences informing healthy peer relationships in Canada
Improving the nutritional status of food-insecure women: First, let them eat what they like
Objective To determine the extent to which identified nutrient inadequacies in the dietary intakes of a sample of food-insecure women could be ameliorated by increasing their access to the ‘healthy’ foods they typically eat. Design Merged datasets of 226 food-insecure women who provided at least three 24-hour dietary intake recalls over the course of a month. Dietary modelling, with energy adjustment for severe food insecurity, explored the effec…
Milk as Metaphor: Low-Income Lone Mothers' Characterization of their Challenges Acquiring Milk for their Families
This study investigated the discourses of low-income lone mothers in Atlantic Canada when they were asked to comment on challenges they faced in providing food in general, and milk in particular, for their families. Data were collected between 1999 and 2006 over the course of two studies through face-to-face interviews and focus groups. We also sought mothers' views on ways to increase access to milk. Transcripts were re-analyzed to assess the sy…
Emergence and reduction in chemistry: Ontological or epistemological concepts
Discomforting comfort foods: Stirring the pot on Kraft Dinner® and social inequality in Canada
The Chief Public Health Officer’s Report on Health Inequalities: What Are the Implications for Public Health Practitioners and Researchers
An Estimation of Canada’s Public Health Physician Workforce
Farmwomen's Discourses on Family Food Provisioning: Gender, Healthism, and Risk Avoidance
This paper examines the dominant discourses utilized by 21 farmwomen with children in three regions of Canada in relation to their talk of household food provisioning. We define food provisioning as the acquisition, preparation, and consumption of food that draws on personal, family, and community resources and supports. Farmwomen expressed their position as gatekeeper of the family meal through traditional gender role discourses. Feeding their f…
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