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Is Government’s Relationship with Science “Crumbling”?

The people who do not trust science today would probably like to be able to. And the people who do trust it may simply be unaware of the problems. Read More ›
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COVID-19
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya’s Next Big Idea

Known as the Norfolk Group, Bhattacharya and his co-authors hope to create a national commission to explore the official responses to Covid. Read More ›
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Fauci and Collins Owe the Country an Apology

The harm done unnecessarily to children — their lost time in school, not to mention missed socialization — is a blow from which many will never recover. Read More ›
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Herd Immunity, Not Herd Mentality

The “field of public health” is complicit in the worst episode of scientific malfeasance in the 21st century. Read More ›
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Sense of Smell Requires Optimized, Scalable Network Circuitry

The ability to smell is one of the most complex of our senses. It requires sorting, analyzing, and sifting a torrent of input data quickly. Read More ›
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Will California Voters Be Stem-Cell Suckered Again?

California is in worse shape now than it was in 2004. Thousands of people are living in tents on the streets of San Francisco and Los Angeles. Read More ›
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NIH Can’t Be Trusted to Regulate Animal/Human Research

We have to be careful how we react to stories like this and not assume that all such work is, by definition, unethical. Read More ›
Dr. Francis S. Collins, Director of NIH.
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On Junk DNA Claim, Francis Collins Walks It Back, Admitting “Hubris”

By "hubris" perhaps he means the overweening tendency to assume that scientific opinion as constituted at the moment has got it all figured out. Read More ›

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