Category: Science
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RFK Jr. and the MAGA Death Trip
Paul Krugman on the GOP, Science, and Health The war on science is turning deadly PAUL KRUGMAN, FEB 6, 2025 In a better world Donald Trump’s musings about taking back the Panama Canal would lead him or people around him to study the canal’s history. They won’t, of course. But if they did they’d learn…
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Alabama Declares War on In Vitro Fertilization
Roe still got it right The argument against embryo personhood takes only one sentence: The living cells that are embryos cannot survive outside the womb. Life at conception may be your religious belief, but it’s not mine. And the first clause of the First Amendment says religious belief alone isn’t law. Alabama Supreme Court On…
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Disinformation and the Internet
Section 230 permits moderation Internet statistics are amazing, even when 7 years old. 700,000 hours of YouTube videos watched in 60 seconds. It sounds like a time warp, but all it takes is 42 million users online. There are over 5 billion internet users in the world today. How much of this is disinformation? Disinformation…
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Masks Are Routine
Airborne Covid Requires Them Wearing Masks Masks are routine protection against airborne infections in hospitals in the United States. Other countries like Japan have used them in public for to prevent illnesses as common as colds. “I think there are cultural differences in Asia as a whole. Mask use in Korea, in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore…
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Political Science
Collected Quotes Can Science Conquer Kansas? Climate change has global consequences for human health and the environment. — Example of changes to an Environmental Protection Agency report made by White House officials under George W. Bush, June 19, 2003 Political staff are becoming increasingly bold in forcing agency officials to endorse junk science. — Jeremy Symons, a…
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The Scientific Method
Collected Quotes “Scientific Method” EntryFirst, information is gathered by careful observation of the phenomenon being studied. On the basis of that information a preliminary generalization, or hypothesis, is formed, and this in turn leads to a number of implications that may be tested by further observations and experiments. If the conclusions drawn from the original…