Tag: activism
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Carpe Datum! Paragraphs from “Galileo’s Middle Finger”
Alice Dreger's "Galileo's Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and the Search for Justice in Science," is one of the most refreshing books I have read recently. Dreger is a clinical medical humanities and bioethics professor at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. Nearly twenty years ago, Dreger became an activist for the rights of intersex persons.…
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To change anti-science activists’ minds, go beyond science
The Conversation: To change anti-science activists' minds, go beyond science … The proponents of GM rice and its benefits clearly have positive intentions, and they are understandably upset. Some of the pieces decrying the acts of the crop vandals explicitly refer to these activists as being “anti-science”. But to dismiss this, and similar, disagreements as…
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How Activism Distorts The Assessment Of Health Risks
Forbes: How Activism Distorts The Assessment Of Health Risks The International Agency for Research on Cancer is renowned for producing assessments of carcinogens. But it appears that some of the agency’s evaluations may overstate the risks, for reasons that tell us a great deal about the science and politics of risk assessment. It is a…
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A New Climate-Change Consensus
Wall Street Journal: Fred Krupp: A New Climate-Change Consensus It's time for conservatives to compete with liberals to devise the best, most cost-effective climate solutions. … For too long, the U.S. has had two camps talking past each other on this issue. One camp tended to preach and derided questions about climate science as evidence…
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Back to (a Theology of) Work We Go…
Out of Ur: Back to (a Theology of) Work We Go… Why the church must talk about "vocation" and not just "mission" if it hopes to engage young adults. … We’ve been told that Millennials are the “activist generation.” They want to make a difference in the world by wearing (red) products, singing U2 songs,…
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Three Cheers for the Cheapeners and Cost-Cutters
Wall Street Journal: Three Cheers for the Cheapeners and Cost-Cutters … A feature of innovation is that the greatest impact of a new idea comes not when the light bulb goes on over the geek's head, but when the resulting technology eventually becomes cheap enough for many people to use—perhaps decades later. The first plane…