Science & Society
- Would More Women In Academic Medicine Leadership Roles Have Improved Coronavirus Response?
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were shown to be a bureaucratic mess when the coronavirus pandemic hit- refusing to send coronavirus tests unless hospitals first proved proved patients had coronavirus, then sending faulty reagents ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 25 2020 - 12:04pm
- Will The Media Retract Their 'Breathless' Warnings Of Insect Armageddon?
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Are insects facing survival challenges? Of course, the evidence in support of reasonable concerns is overwhelming. The important questions are: how serious is the decline; is it accelerating; what are its causes; and how can we address them? Those are not ...
Article - Jon Entine - Jun 29 2020 - 10:05am
- The Earth IS Round: Prove It To Yourself
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F lat earthers are a thing in 2020. Here is a simple do at home proof it is round given a large enough area of apparently flat land. Take a tripod like one would use for a camera and mount a laser pointer on it. Lasers have the feature of being very wel ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jul 1 2020 - 7:25pm
- Sorry Science, By High School 4X As Many Women As Men Want To Enter Medical Fields Instead
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There are more women getting degrees in the life science, social science, and pre-med fields, while more men graduate in engineering and physics. Some contend that is gender bias introduced at a young age, but since education is 70 percent women it is diff ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 2 2020 - 1:49pm
- White Fragility: So Many Opinions From People Who Have Clearly Not Read The Book. More OPINION
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W hite Fragility by Robin DiAngelo for quite a while. While I have not read it I did watch a very long presentation by DiAngelo on the book which has to be the next best thing. She is a brilliant presenter, and anyone be you Kyle Kulinski or Tucker Carl ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jul 8 2020 - 9:01pm
- How Victorian Writers Navigated Censorship And Suppression Of Free Speech
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In an open letter published in Harper’s Magazine, 152 writers, including JK Rowling and Margaret Atwood, claim that a climate of “censoriousness” is pervading liberal culture, the latest contribution to an ongoing debate about freedom of speech online. ...
Article - The Conversation - Jul 10 2020 - 3:58pm
- That Face Mask May Have Been Made With Slave Labor
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From July 24, people in England will have to wear a face mask when inside shops, as well as on public transport. This brings England in line with many other countries that have similar rules already in place. ...
Article - The Conversation - Jul 15 2020 - 10:08am
- 'It's Working' Can Be Destructive- 10 Ways To Get Good At Constructively Disagreeing
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In many groups, everyone seems to agree more or less all the time. Meetings are dominated by a few individuals or even one while everyone else plays along- until you talk to people individually. Why does such meeting inertia happen? For some, voicing dis ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2020 - 10:05am
- Far More Taxpayer Funded Science Has Become Free To Read Thanks To Coronavirus- That May Be Here To Stay
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Scientific publishing is not known for moving rapidly. In normal times, publishing new research can take months, if not years. Researchers prepare a first version of a paper on new findings and submit it to a journal, where it is often rejected, before be ...
Article - The Conversation - Jul 28 2020 - 5:31am
- Coronavirus Has Given Telemedicine New Life- But We Should Stop Penalizing Specialists Who Do It
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In a COVID-19 world, you may not want to visit a doctor but that doesn't mean you have to avoid seeing one. A new RAND evaluation recommends that clinics even hire a telemedicine coordinator to head their efforts and that they consider offering telem ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2020 - 12:39pm