Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"The participants in the group that were given MDMA experienced significantly greater reductions in their PTSD symptoms compared with those in the group that were given a placebo, according to the research article."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/health/mdma-ptsd-psychedelics.html

"While #malaria infection is still prevalent south of the Sahara and in parts of Oceania, such as Papua New Guinea, prior to the 1880s the disease was also endemic in areas that have no longer sustained transmission, including the United States."

https://asm.org/Articles/2023/September/The-History-of-Malaria-in-the-United-States

'This is a hard essay to read or listen to, and it’s meant to be. Clearly, it was hard to write; watching Ursula in her 80s read her own words aloud, more than a decade after she wrote them, the emotion is palpable'

https://lithub.com/watch-ursula-k-le-guin-on-her-illegal-abortion-in-1950/

'And so a lot of the people who try to romanticize what the Roman Empire was and putting themselves into the Roman Empire imagine themselves being, you know, the senator in the fine toga laying on the side, being hand-fed grapes. Whereas more likely than not, they would have died at the age of 28 because of an undiagnosed kidney stone while they were trying to plow their lands.'

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/men-obsessed-roman-empire-explained-tiktok-1234826340/

'The new rules, which went into effect on Sept. 5, mean as many as 10,800 listings for short-term rentals will likely no longer be available, according to a city estimate from the end of March. City officials say the shift will force property owners to rent those homes to residents instead of visitors, helping to ease the city’s housing shortage.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/16/nyregion/airbnb-nyc-housing-rentals.html

“António Costa está há quase oito anos no Governo e desde 2015 que disse que queria resolver o problema da habitação, quase 8 anos depois nem sequer acabou com o regime dos 'vistos gold', não tocou no regime de residentes não habituais e promoveu o regime dos nómadas digitais. Fez um convite mundial a especuladores para virem especular sobre a habitação do nosso país e colocou a banca a ganhar dinheiro como nunca ganhou até agora”

https://www.publico.pt/2023/09/16/politica/noticia/habitacao-be-pede-sobressalto-acusa-bce-terrorismo-financeiro-2063579

Surprise!

"One explanation for the resurgence of scientific racism—what the psychologist Andrew S. Winston defines as the use of data to promote the idea of an “enduring racial hierarchy”—is that some very rich people are underwriting it."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/richard-hanania-racist-pseudoscience-woke-silicon-valley/675335/

'But how phenylephrine stayed on the market this long despite decades of studies and questions is a tangled story involving old drug standards dating back to a law signed by President Kennedy, the proliferation of meth labs using everyday cold remedies in the 1990s, and even the pandemic.'

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/15/health/fda-cold-medicine-decongestant.html

'Constata-se assim que o número de objeções varia, não na proporção do número de semanas de gestação, mas da autonomia da decisão da mulher: para os profissionais de saúde, o que parece ferir mais a consciência é a possibilidade de as mulheres decidirem abortar sem ser por "razões médicas"

https://www.dn.pt/sociedade/sete-hospitais-so-fazem-abortos-se-nao-forem-a-pedido-da-mulher-17035941.html

'Senator Harley Kilgore, a leader of the wartime initiative that led to the establishment of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1950, contested this convention; a liberal Democrat from West Virginia, he thought the government should hold the patents on any research it funded. '

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/10/05/unreasonable-terms-owning-the-sun-monopoly-medicine/

Though dogged in his desire to confirm this "pseudoscientific" (plain false tbh) model of the solar system, #Kepler also stuck to the data and thus ended up elaborating three robust laws of planetary motion which paved a significant part of the way towards Newton's later laws.

If I've understood the now (imo) become distasteful dispute between #IIT advocates and critics, then I believe this historical example contains important lessons for both.

@cognition @cogsci @neuroscience

How prominent fascist enabler and erratic bumbler Elon Musk has destroyed #Twitter/X's usefulness for #science and scientists by flooding it with garbage. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02554-0

Incredible WSJ article on Exxon's efforts to prevent action on #climate change.

“If a worldwide consensus emerges that action is needed to mitigate against Greenhouse gas effects, substantial negative impacts on Exxon could occur,” wrote Sprow [Exxon's head of Research]. “Any additional R&D efforts within Corporate Research on Greenhouse should have two primary purposes: 1. Protect the value of our resources (oil, gas, coal). 2. Preserve Exxon’s business options.”

https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/exxon-climate-change-documents-e2e9e6af?st=tja2obal3ktd3wl&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Spermidine – an old molecule with a new age-defying immune function https://www.cell.com/trends/cell-biology/fulltext/S0962-8924(23)00166-6?rss=yes&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

On this day in 1922: Naomi Datta born, identified horizontal gene transfer as source of antibiotic resistance in bacteria #WomenInBiotech