General Discussion

I looked him up on Wiki - this guy?

Homelessness:
In a 2017 blog post for Mother Jones discussing then-recently published research on public perceptions of the homeless, Drum stated: "The researchers solved their conundrum by suggesting that most people are disgusted by the homeless. No kidding. About half the homeless suffer from a mental illness and a third abuse either alcohol or drugs. You'd be crazy not to have a reflexive disgust of a population like that."[19] Stephen Piston, one of the authors of the research, objected, stating that Drum's article had "profoundly misinterpreted" their research. Pinson wrote: "We argue that media coverage of homeless people often portrays them as unclean or diseased, which activates disgust among the general public. But [Drum] cites our research as proof that homeless people are inherently disgusting — which perpetuates the very problem in journalism our research was trying to solve."[