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The next day’s Crimson put the controversy on page 1: “Psychologists Disagree on Psilocybin Research.” The day after that, the story was picked up by the Boston Herald, a Hearst paper, and given a much punchier if not quite as accurate headline: “Hallucination Drug Fought at Harvard—350 Students Take Pills.” Now the story was out, and very soon

onde a eugenia humana é usada para justificar experimentos grotescos que culminam em confinamento, esterilização, eutanásia e assassinato em massa.

The Lancet in 1998. Twelve years later, it was retracted by its publisher, who described the claims as “proven to be false.” Ten of the paper’s thirteen original coauthors had issued a note of retraction years earlier, in 2004, based on faulty “interpretation” of the study’s data. The main author, the gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield, was banned

While teaching at Brandeis University, working other jobs, and tending her kids, she managed to squeeze out the time to write an exhaustive paper that wove together evidence for her thesis from many different fields. That, in and of itself, was unusual. At Berkeley, she had been shocked by what she called “academic apartheid.” She rarely saw

Schmidt and Lipson published a paper describing their algorithm, they were deluged with requests for access to the software from other scientists, and they decided to make Eureqa available over the Internet in late 2009. The program has since produced a number of useful results in a range of scientific fields, including a simplified equation

We don’t really celebrate the accomplishments of government employees. They exist in our society to take the blame. But if anyone ever paid attention, they would note that Woteki’s department, among other achievements, had suppressed the potentially catastrophic 2015 outbreak of bird flu. They’d created, very quickly, a fast new test for the

What Mojica had stumbled upon was a battlefront in the longest-running, most massive and vicious war on this planet: that between bacteria and the viruses, known as “bacteriophages” or “phages,” that attack them. Phages are the largest category of virus in nature. Indeed, phage viruses are by far the most plentiful biological entity on earth. There