DON'T EVER GIVE UP
2023-02-07 Opinion People With Disabilities Deserve Better Health Care. We All Do. by Tara Lagu I was a resident working in an underresourced health clinic when, one afternoon, my triage paper indicated that my next patient needed a Pap smear. I walked into the room and found a woman sitting in a wheelchair. Although I […]
Myopia for Dystopia in the Illusion of Utopia Postmodern times offer an array of multifaceted displays for the observation of disingenuous and hypocritical behaviors at varying levels of social interaction. In this presentation, myopia suggests the stupefying yet intentional behaviors characterized by exceptional narrowmindedness. The word used here is not in reference to a physiological […]
STEM Graduate Programs Should Embrace Failure by Brittany Trang A few months ago, the culmination of my Ph.D. research was published in Science, the journal of any STEM graduate student’s dreams. My colleagues and I reported on a potential kill-switch we had found to destroy “forever chemicals,” or PFAS, a class of man-made pollutants that […]
2022-10-27 Science Needs Better Fraud Detection – And More Whistleblowers by Aman Majmudar In July, news that shook the field of Alzheimer’s disease research emerged: Matthew Schrag, a neurologist at Vanderbilt University, tipped off the scientific community that a groundbreaking 2006 study may have falsified data and images, calling its findings — and much of […]
2022-10-17 Why Researchers Should Ask About Sex and the Body By Hallie Lieberman Recently, a group of Auschwitz survivors was asked a basic question: How did the Holocaust affect your period? Although many had previously been interviewed by the Shoah Foundation, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Montreal Holocaust Museum, nobody had ever […]
2022-09-23 Let’s Bring the Informed Consent Process Out of the Shadows By Misha Angrist Tahlia Harrison has been bombarded with questions about psychedelics. A practicing therapist, Harrison recently graduated from the bioethics and science policy program at Duke University, where I teach and served as her master’s thesis supervisor. Her patients are increasingly interested in […]
2022-09-07 The US abortion decision is already having global impacts OPINION: The reversal of Roe v. Wade is a tragedy not just for the United States, but for women everywhere By TK Sundari Ravindran By Pascale Allotey By Sofia Gruskin 8.31.2022 The past decades have brought modest improvements to women’s reproductive health around […]
2022-09-05 Universal School Meals Should Be Extended Indefinitely by Lauren Bell Across the country, kids are returning to classes, and families are getting ready to navigate another school year of the new pandemic normal. Those families though may not be ready for the return of the pre-pandemic school lunch system. Prior to Covid-19, children whose […]
2022-08-24 For a More Sustainable Afterlife, Try Human Composting by T.J. Ford As many of us are trying to reduce our impact on the planet while we’re alive — we recycle, we bike, we drive electric cars — it makes sense to think about how to reduce that impact when we die. Unfortunately, the most […]
2022-08-02 On the Delicate Topic of Youth Suicide, Journalists Are Faltering by Rebecca Ruiz In April, The New Yorker published a searching feature story about child suicide. It told the story of a 12-year-old boy, describing how he evaded adult supervision and other safeguards to take his own life, and conveying in graphic detail the […]