science
Performance of a Lifetime: On Invisible Illness, Gender, and Disbelief
There’s little room for a patient’s subjective experience in a medical system organized around quantifiable results.
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Polarizing Science: How Denialism—On Both Sides of the Aisle—Puts the Work of Science In Jeopardy
The more we weaponize science for political points, the more we’ll see a rise in science denialism.
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The Grant Tour: Following the Money in Science Research
Understanding where research comes from and how it’s funded is a big part of thinking critically about science.
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The Lab is Not Neutral: Why We Need Scientific Literacy
Contrary to popular belief, science isn’t performed in a vacuum.
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Unnatural Selection: How Racism Warps Scientific Truths
Why are traditional Native American ecologists, botanists, geneticists, and more cast aside as “mystics”?
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This is Your Brain on Drugs: Women lead the field in psychedelic psychotherapy
We now know that the U.S.-led “War on Drugs” has failed to stop people from using drugs. But one thing prohibitionists did succeed in halting, for decades, was scientific psychedelics research.
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No Two Sides About It: Being Anti-choice is Anti-Science
Antiabortion activists would have us believe abortion is a two-sided issue, but science says otherwise.
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Popaganda: Radical Science
Behold! Using the power of science to interrogate societal assumptions around race and gender! We talk with theoretical astrophysicist Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein about her article “The Physics of Melanin” and how scientific research is always shaped by our human backgrounds. Then, we talk with... Read more »
Science is Sexist: Slaying Male Superiority in “Inferior”
Inferior challenges the idea that there are fundamental differences between the way men and women’s brains are “wired.”
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Meet the Martians: Five women from the Mars One space program share their thoughts on leaving earth forever
When we look beyond space tourism to a permanent settlement on another planet, who do we see there?
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