Kerman University of Medical Sciences International Journal of Health Policy and Management 2322-5939 7 3 2018 03 01 Populism, Exclusion, Post-truth. Some Conceptual Caveats; Comment on “The Rise of Post-truth Populism in Pluralist Liberal Democracies: Challenges for Health Policy” 268 271 3388 10.15171/ijhpm.2017.80 EN Benjamin De Cleen Department of Communication Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel-VUB, Brussels, Belgium Center for Media Data and Society, and Political Science Department, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Journal Article 2017 04 22 In their editorial, Speed and Mannion identify two main challenges “the rise of post-truth populism” poses for health policy: the populist threat to inclusive healthcare policies, and the populist threat to well-designed health policies that draw on professional expertise and research evidence. This short comment suggests some conceptual clarifications that might help in thinking through more profoundly these two important issues. It argues that we should approach right-wing populism as a combination of a populist down/up (people/elite) axis with an exclusionary nationalist in/out (member/non-member) axis. And it raises some questions regarding the equation between populism, demagogy and the rejection of expertise and scientific knowledge. https://www.ijhpm.com/article_3388_621fbd17da27241c58015eabe4164a52.pdf