Science Controversies
Arabic language anti-vaccine conspiracy theories feature Bill Gates as the central target
Across dozens of Arabic pages and groups, dangerous conspiracy theories about the pandemic are racking up millions of views and ...
Here’s why the CDC relaxed its mask policy a week after announcing confusing guidance
For months, federal officials have vigorously warned that wearing masks and social distancing were necessary to contain the pandemic. So ...
Would you get a vaccine for a chance at winning $1 million? Ohio hopes so
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's [lottery to win one of 5 $1 million prizes] to encourage vaccinations appears to be an ...
Eating insects: Will the approval by the EU of beetle larvae for human consumption open doors for sustainable, bug-based snacks?
The first EU wide approval of insects for human consumption was granted on [May 3]... The decision came after a positive ...
Scientifically questionable 10-day pause of J&J vaccine has deepened hesitancy
The 10-day halt in administering Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine has made it harder to inoculate the hard-to-reach and hesitant, ...
Canada’s plant-based COVID vaccine jumps latest hurdle on way toward approval
Canada's first homegrown vaccine for COVID-19 is showing promising antibody results in hundreds of participants in a Phase 2 trial ...
Cancer and race: Why Black women are more likely to die from breast cancer than White women
Researchers have long been trying to understand why African American women are more likely than white women in the U.S ...
Viewpoint: Slew of new books ‘accept the baseless premise propounded by many CRISPR researchers that gene modification of embryos can be done safely’, claims cell biologist
In a recent review in the New York Review of Books of four books on the prospects of using CRISPR ...
Innovation bottlenecks: Human ‘challenge studies’ that purposefully expose subjects to a virus key to developing effective vaccines and minimizing health and financial risks
The most common bottlenecks in vaccine development are cost, risk, safety and time. A vaccine may show promise in a ...
4 in 10 healthcare workers have not gotten a COVID vaccine and many say they never will
Health-care workers were the first group in the United States to be offered coronavirus vaccinations. But three months into the ...
Infographic: Vaccine hesitancy on the wane for some as confidence in shot effectiveness grows, tracking study shows
If we look at the attributes of Americans who are ambivalent about vaccination, we see that living in a small ...
Going forward, will we need an annual COVID vaccine or will ‘one and done’ be enough?
[New COVID] mutations are popping up in increasingly complicated patterns, spurring a drive by top biologists to devise new ways ...
Does more and easier to administer: What will the next generation of COVID vaccines look like?
[R]esearchers are racing to develop the next generation of COVID-19 vaccines, utilizing a variety of innovative technologies to produce more ...
Video: ‘Confusing and crazy shit’—CDC peddling contradictory mask guidelines, says Trevor Noah in rant on The Daily Show
The CDC says that fully vaccinated Americans don’t need to wear masks outside unless they’re in a large group, but ...
‘The effects of naloxone are amazing’: Hospitals in Colorado give out free doses of opioid overdose antidote to at-risk abusers of fentanyl, prescription opioids or heroin
[W]hat if hospital physicians simply handed a vial of naloxone to the patients they worry are most likely to die, ...
Going maskless: CDC lifts almost all recommendations for mask wearing and physical distancing for the fully vaccinated
Fully vaccinated people don’t need to wear a mask or physically distance during outdoor or indoor activities, large or small, ...
A single vaccine to protect us against COVID, SARS, MERS and all other coronavirus diseases? It may be possible
“A universal SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is step one,” [Anthony] Fauci said. Step two would be a universal coronavirus vaccine, capable of ...
Is embryo gene editing a technology we can afford — ethically and morally? Hank Greely address the future in ‘CRISPR People’
[su_panel color="#3A3A3A" border="1px solid #3A3A3A" radius="2" text_align="left"]The following is an excerpt from Hank Greely’s book CRISPR People.[/su_panel] I see no ...
Viewpoint: Tribalism and COVID — Many progressives rejecting science on lockdowns and becoming major hindrance to return to near-normalcy
The spring of 2021 is different from the spring of 2020... Scientists know a lot more about how COVID-19 spreads—and ...
Most people have mild reactions to COVID vaccines — but for some side effects are serious. Understanding why is challenging
In an ideal situation, an adverse event would be directly linked to a vaccine using a specific lab test. For ...
Making the leap from ‘no’ to ‘yes’: Here’s why some vaccine hesitators decided to get a shot
Kim Simmons, a 61-year-old small-business owner in Illinois, vividly remembers the moment she went from vaccine skeptic to vaccine-ready: watching ...
Vaccine advertising moonshot: Behind the scenes of the campaign to convince Americans to get the COVID shot
The question of whether to vaccinate sits at the center of America’s deepest sources of discontent: political hatred, racial injustice, ...
COVID and the Amish: Ohio congregants face soaring infectections and vaccination rate is only 1%. Here’s why
Holmes County, where half of the population is Amish, has the lowest vaccination rate in Ohio, with just 10% of ...
’AI is neither artificial nor intelligent’: Kate Crawford’s new book ‘Atlas of AI’ views technology through a social justice prism
[In her book “Atlas of AI,” Kate Crawford brings] us on a global journey, from the mines where the rare ...
Lab-grown creations called chimeras are celebrated as science breakthroughs — but they are also a cause for concern
[R]esearchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif., and China’s Kunming University of Science and Technology ...
36% of Gen Z-ers say ‘no’ to getting a vaccine: How can we convince skeptical young people to get a coronavirus shot?
A new Quinnipiac University poll found that 36% of Americans under 35 don't plan on getting the vaccine. ... Some ...
Should COVID vaccine patent rights be waived as a commitment to ‘vaccine equity’ for countries without access to shots?
To get the pandemic under control ― a universal goal, to be sure ― a growing number of voices in ...
