Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Saturday, March 21, 2026

RFK Stacks Vaccine Panel: Judge Smacks Him Down

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Judge Brian E. Murphy: ORDER entered. MEMORANDUM AND ORDER on Plaintiffs' Motion for Preliminary Injunction. Plaintiffs’ motion for prel...
Friday, September 12, 2025

RFK v. Pasteur

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  Many   posts  have  discussed   myths  and  misinformation . The greatest spreader of  vaccine misinformation  is the Secretary of Health ...
Saturday, November 23, 2024

Commuinicating Health Information

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Many   posts  have  discussed   myths  and  misinformation  -- especially about  COVID  and  vaccines . Liz Essley Whyte at WSJ: Health auth...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Polarization and Trust in Science

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Many posts  have  discussed   partisan polarization . Alec Tyson and Brian Kennedy at Pew: Roughly nine-in-ten Democrats and Democratic-lea...
Sunday, March 10, 2024

Raw Milk

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Many posts  have  discussed   partisan polarization . After a long effort, an Iowa legislator won approval of a bill to legalize the sale of...
Thursday, April 27, 2023

Little Gender Bias in Academic Science

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Katherine Knott at Inside Higher Ed : Claims of widespread gender bias in tenure-track hiring, grant funding and journal acceptances in the...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

Citizen Science and the Great Backyard Bird Count

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Many posts have discussed volunteering and civic virtue . Julia Rubin at AP: It’s a given that when the Great Backyard Bird Count begins...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Origins of COVID

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Michael Worobey and colleagues have an article in Science titled: "The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter...
Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Declining Trust in Scientists

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From Pew: Americans’ confidence in groups and institutions has turned downward compared with just a year ago. Trust in scientists and medic...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Accepting COVID Misinformation, Rejecting Science

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From the COVID States Project: We asked respondents to mark four popular vaccine misinformation claims as true or false. When in doubt, the...
Sunday, February 13, 2022

The War on Dr. Fauci

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Fact check: A quote tweeted by a Republican congressman to criticize Dr. Fauci came from a neo-Nazi convicted for child pornography, not Vol...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Gene Editing and Deliberative Polling

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Many posts  have discussed  deliberation ,  argument , and the  value  of  viewpoint diversity . A release from the Hastings Center: - A new...
Friday, February 12, 2021

Science, Policy, and Deliberation

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M. Anthony Mills at AEI : Scientific evidence is indeed vital to public policy. The pandemic has made this undeniable, if it was not alread...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Trust in Science and Institutions During the Pandemic

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 Reid Wilson at The Hill : The American public is beginning to lose trust in political leaders and scientific institutions as the coronavir...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Patriotism and Pandemic

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At WP, William Booth interviews Lancet editor Richard Horton: Q: In your book, you write, “ The story of covid-19 in the United States i...
Friday, May 22, 2020

Polarization and Confidence in Medical Scientists

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Cary Funk, Brian Kennedy and Courtney Johnson at Pew: Among Democrats and those leaning to the Democratic Party, 53% have a great deal of c...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

NIH Director Wins Templeton Prize

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A release from the John Templeton Foundation: Geneticist and physician Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health , wh...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Public Health, Federalism, and Fragmentation

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Alan Greenblatt at Governing : To some extent, public health has been a victim of its own success. Over the past century, the focus of Am...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

International Ph.D. Students in STEM

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From the Congressional Research Service: According to the National Science Foundation’s 2017 survey of STEM doctorate recipients from U.S...
Friday, January 17, 2020

Science, Engineering, America, and China

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Elizabeth Redden at Inside Higher Ed : The U.S. share of global science and technology activity has shrunk in some areas even as absolute...