"[Scotland] has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13." That's honestly so amazing.
In a large Scottish study, no cases of cervical cancer were found among women who received HPV vaccines before they turned 14.
ExxonMobil Accused of “Deceptively” Promoting Chemical Recycling as a Solution for the Plastics Crisis The CA attorney general’s lawsuit, which cites ProPublica reporting, alleges that products made with Exxon’s process contain only a small fraction of the recycled plastic that they claim to have.
The California attorney general’s lawsuit, which cites ProPublica reporting, alleges that products made with Exxon’s process contain only a small fraction of the recycled plastic that they claim to ha...
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That’s not a problem, that’s progress! If you take from that story, as some did, “everyone must do everything exactly the same (rigor!) to avoid these problems” then you are foreclosing one of the most fruitful avenues of genuine discovery: why am I getting a different result?
Thread. Science can be better, but often institutions respond to risk with expensive and even harmful bureaucratic theater (think post-9/11 airport security). We want rigor in science, but I don't believe this can be achieved with prescriptive rules derived from one field's methodological crisis.
Asking AIs questions "is not going to lead us to correct information, because their goal during training is to sound correct and be probable, and there’s not really anything fundamentally tied back to real-world accuracy." AI absurdity scholar @janelleshane.com@sarahexplains.bsky.social
From spotless giraffes to secret squirrels, Janelle Shane probes the absurdity (and dangers) of generative AI
I'm not against research on solar radiation modification, but what these guys are doing is idiotic and will have no impact except to act as a decelerant for the climate solutions field.
Some restless entrepreneurs are releasing pollutants in the sky to try to cool the planet.
darth is exactly right here. Texas de-regulated our power grid in 1999 & replaced a state board that oversaw power production & distribution with an open marketplace (ERCOT) in 2002 where power is traded as a commodity. TCAP estimates "deregulation cost Texans about $22 billion from 2002 to 2012."
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Scientists have more information than ever on how cells differ — but they still resist easy grouping. Scientists have more information than ever on how cells differ — but they still resist easy groupi...