This is a smart explanation of how the "masks don't work" message spread & why we know masks do work (and so does flossing) even if there aren't randomized controlled trials to prove it https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-went-wrong-with-a-highly-publicized-covid-mask-analysis/
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Laura Helmuth (laurahelmuth@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Oct-2023 16:47:23 JST Laura Helmuth The anti-science movement is "organized, it’s well-financed, and it’s politically motivated. It’s doing a lot of damage to the country and to American science and scientists. And now it’s become a lethal force." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vaccine-scientist-warns-antiscience-conspiracies-have-become-a-deadly-organized-movement/
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Laura Helmuth (laurahelmuth@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Oct-2023 22:43:44 JST Laura Helmuth Many of us are alive thanks to the mRNA COVID vaccine developed by today's Nobel Prize winners and many many many others. Here's a short thread of news from today, plus a Q&A with Katalin Karikó and a Scientific American article by Drew Weissman. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nobel-prize-medicine-2023-mrna-vaccine-tech/ #nobelprize
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Laura Helmuth (laurahelmuth@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 12:59:46 JST Laura Helmuth It’s a very human thing to fret about getting older. But we are as young as we will ever be! Our future selves want us to appreciate the age we are right now
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Laura Helmuth (laurahelmuth@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Jun-2023 22:17:06 JST Laura Helmuth "Debating debunked anti-vaccine activists like Robert Kennedy Jr., is misguided. Trust me, I’ve made the mistake of debating perhaps the world’s most infamous anti-vaccine figure, and all it does is debase science and harm the public." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/debating-antivaccine-cranks-debases-science-and-harms-the-public/ by @drg1985
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Laura Helmuth (laurahelmuth@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 03-Jun-2023 11:33:33 JST Laura Helmuth This is important: Social Security isn't broken, and false claims about it are spread by some of the same people who reject climate science. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/false-facts-about-science-and-social-security-share-origins/
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Laura Helmuth (laurahelmuth@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 01-Jun-2023 22:42:26 JST Laura Helmuth We ran an editorial at Scientific American about school start times, and a teacher and his students wrote to us with their own stories and got their school to change its schedule (!) and summer break is a great time for all school districts to fix the problem of too-early starts https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/high-school-students-need-more-sleep-and-later-school-start-times/
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Laura Helmuth (laurahelmuth@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 11:13:36 JST Laura Helmuth We're hiring for six positions on the editorial side of Scientific American right now: opinion editor, health editor, science reporter, copy editor, multimedia editor and engagement editor. The first five are listed and the sixth should be posted soon. You can see those openings plus some business and engineering jobs here. Thanks for considering these jobs yourself or recommending them to others! https://careers.springernature.com/search/?createNewAlert=false&q=&optionsFacetsDD_country=US&optionsFacetsDD_location=&optionsFacetsDD_customfield1=Scientific+American&optionsFacetsDD_customfield2=&optionsFacetsDD_customfield3=
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