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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
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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
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Montague: 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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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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Trumpies Threaten life of Scientists like Dr. Fauci, just as ISIS Killed Archeologist Dr. Al-Asaad
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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
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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
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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
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Funk: Key Findings about Americans’ Confidence in Science
Science knowledge levels sometimes correlate with public attitudes. But partisanship has a stronger role
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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
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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
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Shallice: Scientists against the machine
Examining the history of radical research at the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science
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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
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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
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Meyer: Trump’s Interference With Science Is Unprecedented
Experts say that key EPA proposals would meddle with the research process and endanger decades of protective health rules
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Else: Radical Open-Access Plan Would Democratize Science
Research funders from France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and eight other European nations have unveiled a radical open-access initiative that could change the face of science publishing in two years
ZMag Science
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Chomsky: 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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Piascik: 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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Angus: Hijacking The Anthropocene
What can lobbyists do when science contradicts their political messages?...
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Larson: Come Hell and High Water
Late last year, the research journal Science published a surprising...
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Ananda: Three Approved GMOs Linked to Organ Damage
In what is being described as the most comprehensive study...
Science Video
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Chomsky: 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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Hari: 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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Chomsky: Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Noam Chomsky is a famed linguist, political activist, prolific...
Science Audio
Science Blogs
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Black: Environmental justice struggles in Aamjiwnaang and Sarnia
A community leader speaks about how natives have been confronting...
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Black: Fighting Chemical Valley
In this interview, Zak Nicholls shares his experiences with struggles...
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Mason: ClimateGate and the Hypocrisy of Modern Science
Let’s keep this short and sweet. Charles Darwin isn’t a...
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Mason: Keeping Up with the Scientific Joneses
Science is a human activity, and expectedly sloshes about within...
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Ross: Texas state school board continues assualt on reason
[Cross-posted from Where The Blog Has No Name] The right-wing...
Science Books
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Garrigues: 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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Schofield: Not In Our Genes: Biology, Ideology and Human Nature
Sociobiology never fully recovered from the publication of Not In...
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Bocquet: Modernity and the Holocaust
Foreword. 1. Introduction: Sociology after the Holocaust. 2. Modernity, Racism,...
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Wilmart: Le monde selon monsanto
A groundbreaking book about the chemical and biotech industry giant,...
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Tokar: Redesigning Life?: The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering
Genetic engineering, animal cloning and new reproductive technologies are promoted...