Latest Science

• Hvistendahl: 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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  Monbiot: 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
• Freudenberg: 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?
• Jones: 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
• Riad: 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
• Montague: Trump’s Attacks on Science Have Scarred Our Public Institutions

  Trump is continuing a long GOP tradition of warring against science
• The Scientific American: 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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  Cole: American ISIS?

  Trumpies Threaten life of Scientists like Dr. Fauci, just as ISIS Killed Archeologist Dr. Al-Asaad
• White: 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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  Dorfman: Trump’s attack on science

  My own dire prophecies failed to adequately predict the future and today I see Trump as someone far more terrifying
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  Cho: 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
• Garrett: 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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  Giroux: 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
• Halpern: 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
• Funk: Key Findings about Americans’ Confidence in Science

  Science knowledge levels sometimes correlate with public attitudes. But partisanship has a stronger role
• Goldman, Jane Zelikova: Abortion Bans Based on So-Called “Science” Are Fraudulent

  Our silence in the face of new anti-choice laws across the U.S. is deafening
• Evich: ‘It feels like something out of a bad sci-fi movie’

  A top climate scientist quit USDA, following others who say Trump has politicized science
• Shallice: Scientists against the machine

  Examining the history of radical research at the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science
• Sen: Trump’s War On Science Worse Than Inquisition

  The White House’s crude deflections on science aren’t simply ignorant — they’re calculated to serve the fossil fuel industry at the entire planet’s expense
• Wadman: Trump admin quietly barred NIH scientists from acquiring fetal tissue

  The suspension, imposed this past September without a public announcement, came as the government launched a review of all fetal tissue research funded by the federal government