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Masks and Emasculation: Why Some Men Refuse to Take Safety Precautions
They think it makes them look weak, and avoiding that is evidently more important to them than demonstrating responsible behavior
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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic
Phil Anderson’s article “More Is Different” describes how different levels of complexity require new ways of thinking. And as the virus multiplies and spreads, that’s just what the human race desperately needs...
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The Fight against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage
The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention
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The Greatest Unknown Intellectual of the 19th Century
Emil du Bois-Reymond proclaimed the mystery of consciousness, championed the theory of natural selection and revolutionized the study of the nervous system. Today he is all but forgotten...
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Behind the Scenes of a Radical New Cancer Cure
I’ve now treated several patients with the new cancer gene therapy called CAR-T, but there’s still a lot to learn
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Can Lifelong, Invasive Screening Eradicate Cancer?
A prominent oncologist urges continuous testing of everyone from birth onward with implanted devices that detect cancerous cells before they spread
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Medicine’s Power Problem
It’s not just “superstar” doctors who get away with abuse of patients, medical trainees and other hospital staff
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The Carbon Bomb
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How Mass Spectrometry Can Help Limit Reproducibility Problems
Technology comes to the aid against a drain on resources in medical research
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Scientists Should Stop Naming Species after Awful People
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Are We Doing Everything We Can to Treat Infertility?
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Galileo’s Big Mistake
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