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Until recently, it seemed inconceivable to imagine that any physical or biological scientists could become so misguided as to argue against the empirical basis of their own fields.
Negative stereotypes about psychedelics are undergoing a reassessment.
This overreach of public health also bleeds into the educational sector, where schooling is yet another SDOH requiring intervention.
Recent White House initiatives suggest that addressing climate change has risen to the policy forefront of government at the presidential level for the first time in US history. Last week President Biden convened an online international meeting of heads of state on the issue and committed the US to a
In fact, the single most common technique for insisting that Austen is anti-slavery is for the critic to draw an equivalence between slavery and her depiction of social class, or her portrayal of the status of women.
The essence of AI is not white oppression, racism, sexism, and colonialism, it is the automation of mathematics and logic.
Long COVID is just the latest example of the sort of idea that will become popular among this generation—and it certainly won’t be the last.
The path to progress is definitely not paved by destroying the epistemological framework bequeathed to us by the Enlightenment.
Africa has not been affected on anything like the scale of most countries in Asia, Europe, and North and South America.
In the north, the Maritime Archaic gave way to Pre-Dorset Palaeoeskimos (as they are known in the literature) that had recently arrived from Siberia.
The underlying assumption of The Immortality Key is that the human need to reconcile itself with death is a core element of religion.
One of the odd-seeming aspects of progressive cancel culture is that many of the figures targeted by mobs aren’t especially conservative in their views.
The aim of antenatal screening is to discourage the birth of people with severe disabilities.
The Declaration states that achieving herd immunity for COVID-19 can be assisted by vaccines, “but is not dependent” on their use.
As recent studies have shown, these advantages generally don’t go away simply because an athlete has changed their pronouns and hormone chemistry. At the highest levels, the difference between male and female world records typically hovers around 10 percent.