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Because Huntington’s disease is caused by a single gene mutation, it is a prime early target for clinical trials involving somatic cell genome editing.
The International Rice Research Institute developed numerous different Golden Rice strains back-crossed into commonly grown varieties, behind tough security barriers because of constant threats from activists encouraged by Greenpeace.
Hope had been expressed during the early part of this century that DNA testing might be used to identify individuals with exceptional athletic ability.
The activist group Extinction Rebellion is telling us that climate change represents “an unprecedented global emergency” and is calling for radical measures to deal with it.
Modern trans activists reframed transsexualism/transgenderism as a political problem rather than a clinical problem.
In recent years, psychologists and political scientists have identified several factors that influence conspiratorial thinking, such as political orientation, race and power (or the lack thereof). These are proximate causes of conspiracism.
The theory that science is based on evidence derives from a philosophy known as empiricism.
Shouting someone down for speaking a thought in public effectively ends the critical discussion. There can be no further exploration of why the idea at issue is wrong, or what kernel of truth there may be therein.
The evidence that men are more violent and more criminal than women is overwhelming, and yet it doesn’t imply that all men are violent, deserve to be incarcerated, or are undeserving of our sympathy or compassion if they are imprisoned.
Value judgments seem inevitable in trying to establish the relative comparisons between drugs, and any attempt to compare apples and oranges will inevitably fall short of the scientist’s objective goals.
Global warming is a tragedy of the commons, in which logical agents act in ways that run counter to the longterm interests of the group.
The message in Appropriate Terminology, Indigenous Australian People is that the UNSW now regards its core mission—the pursuit of truth—as negotiable if it conflicts with the postures associated with social justice.
This isn’t the first time this has happened in video game research.
Still, the universe is full of things that seem irrefutably evident and yet can’t be well explained or understood.
Men have been dying at higher rates than women over time, and the gap appears to be constant.