Gun violence prevention - Authors' reply - Kalesan B, Fagan J, Galea S.
We thank all authors for their interest in our paper;1 four main critiques are raised. First, Schell and Morral suggest that bootstrapping to recalculate standard error and confidence intervals would be appropriate in this context. We disagree. Bootstra...
Source: SafetyLit - August 5, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Commentary Source Type: news

Climate summaries 'for grownups,' but not too difficult for policymakers
(Carnegie Institution for Science) Offering a rare insider analysis of the climate assessment process, Chris Field, Katharine Mach, and colleagues at the Department of Global Ecology examined the writing and editing procedures by which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change creates summaries of their findings for policymakers. Despite recent critiques that these summaries are too difficult for non-experts, Mach and colleagues found them comparable to reference texts in terms of reading comprehension level.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - August 5, 2016 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Deceiving or disrupting the pink aisle? GoldieBlox, corporate narratives, and the gendered toy debate - Hudak KC.
Using the coordinated management of meaning theory as a guide, this article examines critiques and commendations of toy company, GoldieBlox Inc.'s, goal of "disrupting the pink aisle." Notwithstanding capitalistic enterprise, it is argued that GoldieBlox's...
Source: SafetyLit - August 3, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news

4 Black Women Writers Get Honest About Mental Illness And Race
July is Minority Mental Health Month, a month to spread awareness about how mental illnesses specifically affects people of color, and to erase the stigma and misinformation that plagues POC when it comes to mental illness. One way to spread awareness is through dialogue. I had a candid conversation with three black women writers (Ashley Reese, Minaa B, and Angelica Bastien) who deal with mental illness about how our mental health ― including depression, ADHD and suicidal thoughts ― affects our lives and our work. Zeba Blay: I’ve been thinking a lot about identity. About how our identities shape the way we n...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Finding A Cure Wouldn’t Mean We’ve Defeated Cancer
WebMD wasn't a research option when Ivy Brown was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1974, so her mother looked up her 12-year-old daughter's condition the old-fashioned way, in a hardcover medical volume. "It just said 'fatal,'" Brown explained. Having moved the family to London a month earlier, Brown's parents were still trying to liaise with her pediatrician in the U.S. "My father told me recently that he was sleeping with the phone on his stomach because of the time change," she said. "They were as scared as you can be when you have a child who you think you might lose," Brown explained. "It was devastating for ...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - June 29, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news

How Can a Healthy Young Person Just Drop Dead?
(MedPage Today) -- Perry Wilson critiques an intriguing new study of sudden cardiac death
Source: MedPage Today Emergency Medicine - June 22, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: news

Privacy Concern Delays Posting of Patient Critiques of Docs
(MedPage Today) -- Yelp-like plan yields 'Yikes' response
Source: MedPage Today Surveys - June 12, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news

Is burning poached ivory good for elephants?
Conservationists raise serious questions about the widespread incineration of ivory stockpiles confiscated from poachersAt the end of April, Kenya incinerated 105 tonnes of confiscated elephant ivory, aiming to send a clear signal to the poachers and public alike: killing elephants for their tusks and buying ivory-based products is simply not acceptable.But do such spectacles really help conserve elephants? Or could they, in fact, be counterproductive? Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 8, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Henry Nicholls Tags: Science Zoology Conservation Africa Kenya Biology Environment Source Type: news

The Real Reason Pig-Human Chimeras Make Ethicists Uncomfortable
I recently came across a story about a controversial new science project: growing human organs inside pigs, cows, and sheep. It works by first removing the gene that a pig needs to make the desired organ--say, a pancreas. Once the scientist has a pig embryo lacking that gene, he injects human stem cells into the embryo, hoping that the human stem cells will fill in the gaps and make a human pancreas. The ultimate goal is to transplant those organs into humans. The project is so controversial that the National Institutes of Health has refused to fund it. The researchers are relying on private donors. Critics of these exper...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 24, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news

How and Why Scientists Fudge Results, and What We Can Do About It
Just a few weeks ago, in one of his provocative and hilarious critiques of American culture, John Oliver, host of Last Week Tonight, turned his discerning eye to scientific research. If you haven't seen it yet, it's worth the watch. The topic hit home with me because my colleagues and I recently published a paper looking at some of the very criticisms Oliver so succinctly explains. You can find it here. We looked specifically at researchers who study management, but the results are applicable in a general way to all disciplines. One Oliver quote struck me as especially poignant: "Science is by its nature imperfect, but i...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 23, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news

GP rating sites — out there and unfair
The number of websites allowing patients to post reviews of the care they receive from their GP practices is increasing. But doctors say that many reviews are unfairly negative and even abusive, with GPs often unable to respond to anonymous reviewers, as Peter Blackburn finds out 'It is very easy to be a popular doctor, but it’s much harder to be a good one.’ That is the warning of Leeds GP Richard Vautrey, as the profession is left increasingly open to criticism on TripAdvisor-style websites where care, compassion and life-saving expertise are rated by patients as if they were restaurants or hotels. Government...
Source: BMA News - May 10, 2016 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Peeling Back the Curtain On Monsanto
For nearly 30 years, Carey Gillam has worked as a business reporter covering corporate America, the last 17 of those with Reuters, where she specialized in writing about food and agriculture. In that role, she gained a reputation for her in-depth skeptical eye on issues involving GMO (genetically modified organisms) crops and the pesticides used with them. Her award-winning coverage has taken her across the country, visiting farmers and ranchers and exploring the high-tech laboratories and corporate offices of some of the largest agribusinesses corporations in the world. But in recent years, Gillam's work has turned "cont...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - May 10, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news

4 Reasons to Cultivate Patience
Kira M. Newman As virtues go, patience is a quiet one. It's often exhibited behind closed doors, not on a public stage: A father telling a third bedtime story to his son, a dancer waiting for her injury to heal. In public, it's the impatient ones who grab all our attention: drivers honking in traffic, grumbling customers in slow-moving lines. We have epic movies exalting the virtues of courage and compassion, but a movie about patience might be a bit of a snoozer. Yet patience is essential to daily life -- and might be key to a happy one. Having patience means being able to wait calmly in the face of frustration or adversi...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - April 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Your Uber rating's more important than you think - Tech weekly podcast
In a society where five-star ratings have become a form of social currency, your real-life reputation is being shaped by digital scoresIt’s a brave new world in which we live in, dictated by scores, reviews, judgements and critiques; and we’re asking the question: what does your rating say about you?Joining Olly Mann to talk about Uber and the “rating society” are Guardian Australia’s Elle Hunt, applied psychologist Reece Akhtar and co-founder of iPhone app Peeple Julia Cordray. Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 14, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Presented by Olly Mann and produced by Matt Shore Tags: Uber Airbnb Apps Psychology Social media Social networking Source Type: news

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