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• Why Leftists are Joining Hands With the Right in Opposing Vaccine Mandates

  By: Christopher Orlet

  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?

  By: Paul Rogers

  Change must happen before 2030 to avoid disaster. Despite the disappointment around Glasgow, climate science and activism offer hope of progress
• We are being out-evolved

  By: Tom H. Hastings

  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’

  By: Jonathan Cook

  Into the void between our scientific knowledge and our fear of mortality has rushed politics
• Evangelicals, science and the vaccine

  By: Nathaniel Manderson

  Too many of my fellow evangelicals see science as the mortal enemy of faith. It doesn't have to be that way
• Diagnosing Earth

  By: Jeff Tollefson

  The Science Behind the IPCC’S Upcoming Climate Report
• I Visited a Chinese Lab at the Center of a Biosafety Debate

  By: Mara Hvistendahl

  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

  By: George Monbiot

  How I became a human plague – and stumbled into one of the most astonishing scientific stories I’ve ever encountered
• Corporate Versus Public Control of Science And Technology

  By: Nicholas Freudenberg

  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?
• COVID Scientist Condemns Armed Police Raid on Her Home

  By: Rebekah Jones

  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
• Scientists: How to fight back against anti-maskers, climate deniers and anti-vaxxers

  By: Keroles Riad

  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

  By: Peter Montague

  Trump is continuing a long GOP tradition of warring against science
• On November 3, Vote to End Attacks on Science

  By: Editors, The Scientific American

  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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  American ISIS?

  By: Juan Cole

  Trumpies Threaten life of Scientists like Dr. Fauci, just as ISIS Killed Archeologist Dr. Al-Asaad
• Science, News, and Hate in the Age of Instant Media

  By: John K. White

  Follow the science, beware the lies, and don’t fall for the hate
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  Trump’s attack on science

  By: Ariel Dorfman

  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

  By: Joshua Cho

  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
• COVID-19: Information Must Drive Global and National Responses to the Epidemic.

  By: Laurie Garrett

  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

  By: Henry A. Giroux

  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
• Sidelining Scientists Can Only Make COVID-19 Worse

  By: Michael Halpern

  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
• Key Findings about Americans’ Confidence in Science

  By: Cary Funk

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

  By: Nicole M. Baran, Gretchen Goldman, Jane Zelikova

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

  By: Helena Bottemiller Evich

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

  By: Jane Shallice

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

  By: Basav Sen

  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