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GLP podcast and video: ChatGPT more empathetic than doctors? How ideology corrupts science; Testing drugs on mini-organs, not animals

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Is ChatGPT more empathetic than your doctor? A recent study seems to suggest so. An emerging consensus of scientists is ...
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Forced sterilizations in the US? It happened in California until 2013

Shilpa Jindia | 
Filmed over seven years, Erika Cohn’s Belly of the Beast exposes state-sanctioned sterilizations in California prisons through the story of ...
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Structural discrimination: COVID-19 illuminates healthcare inequalities for blacks

Meghana Keshavan | 
The disparities have long been documented. Black people are more likely than white people to die from cancer. They are ...
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Race science? Can AI ‘predict’ criminality through facial analysis?

Sidney Fussell | 
With “80 percent accuracy and with no racial bias,” the paper, A Deep Neural Network Model to Predict Criminality Using ...
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Modern population genetics grew out of a shady eugenicist past

Rori Rohlfs | 
[A]s a faculty member at San Francisco State University (SFSU), a public institution that puts social justice at the center ...
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Podcast: ‘How to argue with a racist’—geneticist Adam Rutherford challenges what he calls ‘pseudoscience’ in genetics and politics

Adam Rutherford explains how to argue with a racist, hunting for the ghosts in the human genome, and recreating the ...
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10 common misconceptions about China’s coronavirus

Bruce Lee | 
“There is so much misinformation out there,” said Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A., the Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer at NYMC, ...
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Podcast: Francis Galton: Brilliant scientist—and eugenics pioneer. How do we address his racist legacy?

Kat Arney | 
Geneticist Dr Kat Arney explores how Francis Galton's eugenic ideas led directly to some of the 20th century's worst atrocities ...
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White supremacists, milk and an ‘inconvenient truth’ about genetics

Amy Harmon | 
Nowhere on the agenda of the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, being held in San Diego...is ...
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Viewpoint: Why consumer DNA tests are more dangerous than you might think

John Terrell | 
Commercial DNA testing isn’t just harmless entertainment. It’s keeping alive ideas that deserve to die ...
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How human evolution—and racism—could be altered by climate change

Scott Solomon | 
Evidence suggests that a warming planet could melt away differences between human races — or population groups, as scientists more ...
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Pursuing artificial intelligence that’s free of bias

Dan Robitzski | 
As the problems caused by algorithmic bias have bubbled to the surface, experts have proposed all sorts of solutions on how to make ...
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Measuring intelligence and IQ, and the problems that presents

Daphne Martschenko | 
For more than a century, IQ tests have been used to measure IQ. But their use is hotly debated by ...
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23andMe: Alt-right mistaken, DNA tests can’t ‘prove their whiteness’

Meredith Knight | 
A trend among members of the ultraconservative 'alt-right' movement is posting genetic test results online to prove their ‘whiteness.” They ...
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