Latest Science

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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
• 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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  Monbiot: Honorable Theft

  How one young woman broke down the gates of knowledge
• 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
• Hunziker: Trump Kills Science – Nature Strikes Back

  Federal agency scientists have been personally attacked and censored and reassigned to meaningless tasks not affiliated with their expertise and prevented from attending crucial conferences. Funding for science has been slashed
• Eckersley: Closing the gap between the science and politics of progress

  We should turn the current crisis of political legitimacy into an opportunity to redefine progress
• Evans: The unwelcome revival of ‘race science’

  Its defenders claim to be standing up for uncomfortable truths, but race science is still as bogus as ever
• Meek: Zapatistas and the Struggle to Decolonize Science

  The Zapatistas want science to be reimagined by both scientists and the grassroots together as a technique of resistance
• Queally: 7 Words You Can’t Say at Trump’s CDC

  The existence of a list of reportedly banned words—including "vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity," "transgender," "fetus," "evidence-based" and "science-based"—was described by Sen. Kamala Harris as "downright ridiculous"
• Zimmer: Genes for Skin Color

  The widespread distribution of these genes and their persistence over millenniums show that the old color lines are essentially meaningless
• Wollman: Science Permeating All Our Institutions

  History has taught us that investments in science pay dividends both economically and in results