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‘There Is No Way To Fool Physics’: Climate Breakdown And State-Corporate Madness
Time is running out too rapidly to fundamentally reform society and create a real democracy that people deserve
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Risk Aversion Is Ruining Science
To nurture scientific discovery, universities and grant institutions must do a better job of rewarding failure
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Maybe one day we will achieve a full Earth, full of humanity and knowledge
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The Radical Open Access Collective: Building Better Knowledge Commons
The general public may not give much thought to how scientists and scholars publish their work, but please know that it matters
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The Grim Consequences of Sidelining Science
Nearly One Million US Deaths from COVID-19
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Why Leftists are Joining Hands With the Right in Opposing Vaccine Mandates
In these days of rampant inequality, attacks on American democracy, climate crisis and a seemingly never-ending pandemic, toxic individualism is giving the Common Good a run for its money
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COP26 focused on long-term climate goals. But what does this decade hold?
Change must happen before 2030 to avoid disaster. Despite the disappointment around Glasgow, climate science and activism offer hope of progress
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As each new meteorological record for heat was smashed again and again, Detroit and the American consumer yawned
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On child vaccines, the experts are suddenly reluctant to follow ‘the science’
Into the void between our scientific knowledge and our fear of mortality has rushed politics
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Evangelicals, science and the vaccine
Too many of my fellow evangelicals see science as the mortal enemy of faith. It doesn't have to be that way
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The Science Behind the IPCC’S Upcoming Climate Report
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I Visited a Chinese Lab at the Center of a Biosafety Debate
What I Learned Helps Explain the Clash Over Covid-19’s Origins
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Apparently just by talking about it, I’m super-spreading long Covid
How I became a human plague – and stumbled into one of the most astonishing scientific stories I’ve ever encountered
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Corporate Versus Public Control of Science And Technology
Are the public health crises of the last decade harbingers of a world doomed to declining human and planetary health or a wakeup call to act now to create a better future?
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COVID Scientist Condemns Armed Police Raid on Her Home
As Florida sets new records for daily coronavirus cases, we speak with a whistleblower who was fired in May from the Florida Department of Health after she refused to censor information
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Scientists: How to fight back against anti-maskers, climate deniers and anti-vaxxers
Universities and scientists must recognize the necessity of equipping the next generation with science journalism skills, and adapt their training and professional development accordingly
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Trump’s Attacks on Science Have Scarred Our Public Institutions
Trump is continuing a long GOP tradition of warring against science
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On November 3, Vote to End Attacks on Science
On an individual basis, the most powerful action you can take to protect science is to vote out of office a president who is trying to gut it—and to encourage people you know to do likewise, especially in the battleground states
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Trumpies Threaten life of Scientists like Dr. Fauci, just as ISIS Killed Archeologist Dr. Al-Asaad
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Science, News, and Hate in the Age of Instant Media
Follow the science, beware the lies, and don’t fall for the hate
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My own dire prophecies failed to adequately predict the future and today I see Trump as someone far more terrifying
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Media Ignore International Cooperation as Shortcut to Coronavirus Vaccine
Corporate media coverage of the global race for a coronavirus vaccine marginalizes the most effective and safe route to discovering one quickly: eschewing corporate profitability and intellectual property rights in favor of international cooperation through open and shared, publicly funded research
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COVID-19: Information Must Drive Global and National Responses to the Epidemic.
The spread of COVID-19 is aided and abetted by misinformation that circumnavigates the planet in microseconds. The only defense against panic is agile, accurate, available counter-information that conveys a consistently science-driven narrative
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Cult-Like Ignorance is Death: Trump and the Coronavirus
Trump has played down the urgency of the pandemic, blamed the media for distorting its seriousness, and believes that brown people are more of a threat to national security than real threats such as a pandemic and climate change
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Sidelining Scientists Can Only Make COVID-19 Worse
The politicization of information about COVID-19 will make people less trustful and compromise compliance with public health advice. And the only winner is the virus itself
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Bosses Are Making Coronavirus Worse, for Their Benefit
We should recognize that unless we get to the roots of this pandemic, it’s going to recur, probably in worse form, simply because of the manipulations of the capitalist system which are trying to create circumstances in which it will be worse, for their benefit
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Gene Drives have been called “mutagenic chain reactions,” and are to the biological world what chain reactions are to the nuclear world. The Guardian describes Gene Drives as the “gene bomb.”
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The Connecticut Physician Who Warned the World About DDT
In the late 1940s, Morton Biskind, a Westport Connecticut physician, began noticing new ailments and new variations on old ailments in both humans he was treating as well as animals in the area.
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What can lobbyists do when science contradicts their political messages?...
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Book by Robert Whitaker; New York, Crown Publishers, 2010, 416...
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Congress’ Assault on Climate Science
Interview on upcoming March on Washington
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Science at MIT: From the Cold War to Climate Change
Discussion on how scientific research at MIT has been affected for the past 50+ years by its relationship with outside funding agencies, in particular the US military
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Everything We Know About the Drug War & Addiction is Wrong
It’s not your morality, it’s not your brain, it’s your cage. Addiction is an adaptation to your environment
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Blogs
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Environmental justice struggles in Aamjiwnaang and Sarnia
A community leader speaks about how natives have been confronting...
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In this interview, Zak Nicholls shares his experiences with struggles...
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HIV is not the cause of AIDS. In fact, HIV...
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ClimateGate and the Hypocrisy of Modern Science
Let’s keep this short and sweet. Charles Darwin isn’t a...
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Keeping Up with the Scientific Joneses
Science is a human activity, and expectedly sloshes about within...
Books
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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science
From the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author of Woman,...
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Not In Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature
Sociobiology never fully recovered from the publication of Not In...
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2009 April 9 by Mike Marqusee CONTENDING FOR THE...
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Foreword. 1. Introduction: Sociology after the Holocaust. 2. Modernity, Racism,...
