Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

'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

My father was stationed in Alabama when white supremacist terrorists killed four Black girls in Birmingham. My favorite neighbor in the latter 2010s was a Holocaust survivor who was only alive because she made a run for it during a Nazi death march through the forest.

Ancient history? Hell, it isn't even history when you KNOW someone who was there.

#California sues five major oil companies for ‘decades-long campaign of deception’ about #climate #change

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-16/california-sues-five-major-oil-companies-for-lying-about-climate-change
#Exxon Mobil, #Shell , #Chevron, #ConocoPhillips, #BP and the American Petroleum Institute

#ClimateChange

Postdoc Positions in Neuroscience, Connectomics, and Multi-omics

Johns Hopkins University

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/johns-hopkins-university-27778-postdoc-positions-in-neuroscience-connectomics-and-multi-omics/?feed_id=59063

#ScienceJobs #hiring #research @JHUBME
Baltimore #UnitedStatesUS #PostdoctoralFellow #Researc...
https://jobrxiv.org/job/johns-hopkins-university-27778-postdoc-positions-in-neuroscience-connectomics-and-multi-omics/?feed_id=59063

The latest iteration of the EU's Critical Raw Materials Act establishes that 15% of domestic demand should be met by recycling by 2030, and 50% processed within the EU.

But the plenary text warned that "deep sea mining will most likely result in damage to ecosystems and a permanent loss of biodiversity," calling for a moratorium on deep-sea mining since the impact on marine ecosystems has not been researched.

https://euobserver.com/green-economy/157425

#EU #EuropeanParliament #DeepSea #Mining #Marine #Ecosystems

Today's Republican party is a disgrace. The lies, the hypocrisy, the racism, the bigotry, the denialism, and the ludicrous conspiracy theories are more than I can stomach 🤢🤢🤢

Texas Republicans put Ken Paxton above the law

Paxton's acquittal by fellow Republicans confirms that Republicans believe a man with the right politics cannot break the law.
#AureFreePress #News #GOP #Politics #USA #Trump #MAGA #Republicans

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/paxton-acquittal-texas-republicans-trump-rcna105253