Posted on Jun 25, 2020 | Comments Off on Would More Women In Academic Medicine Leadership Roles Have Improved Coronavirus Response?
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were shown to be a bureaucratic mess when the coronavirus pandemic hit - refusing to send coronavirus tests unless hospitals first proved proved patients had coronavirus, then sending faulty reagents - and academic epidemiologists often seemed to be just making things up, but one area came through nicely; academic medicine.Medicine, along...
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Posted on Jun 10, 2020 | Comments Off on Epidemiologists Advocate For Warning Labels On Soda – And Hope California Will Notice
A team of epidemiologists who correlate specific types of calories, rather than simply too many calories, to obesity have written a new paper advocating for cigarette-style warning labels on soda. read...
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Posted on Jun 3, 2020 | Comments Off on Business Insider Takes A Trip Down 2019 Chemophobia Lane
Thanks to COVID-19, the public has gotten a lot more skeptical about claims that chemicals, food, and medicine are corporate conspiracies created to replace natural products that worked just fine. Even more ridiculous has been the belief that millions and millions of people are dying from these newer products even though there are no bodies to be found.Science is back, and that may be why...
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Posted on May 21, 2020 | Comments Off on Coronavirus Has Caused Democrats To Move Back Toward Trust In Science
A year ago, and for this entire century, the nexus of anti-vaccine beliefs and other denial of science has been Democratic states. While places like Mississippi and Alabama had vaccine rates near 100 percent, an infectious disease crisis that began on the west coast forced politicians in California, where kids without vaccines totaled more than the other 49 states combined, to shuck off their...
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Posted on May 5, 2020 | Comments Off on Gig Economy Workers Suffer During The Pandemic, And California’s Ill-Timed Delivery Service Lawsuit Just Made It Worse
If you had a choice, would you rather set your own hours or work around your schedule around family needs, or would you prefer being forced to go into an office where a corporate manager applies constant pressure to do more in the same amount of time and you have to pay for babysitting?Many people opt for the former, and the "gig economy", where you set your own schedule, has been a boon for...
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Posted on Dec 3, 2019 | Comments Off on 5 Common Questions About Why SciComm Writes
I got an email from a young person at a university stating they were working on a research paper, and while many in the science and scicomm community are jaded about such requests - we are doing someone's homework for them, it is said - I always answer. It's a nonprofit, answering is the job.The questions were rather specific to GMOs so I stuck to that, but of course I write about a lot more than...
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