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AI spots 40,000 prominent scientists overlooked by Wikipedia
The Verge
It can be difficult to find prominent individuals who have been overlooked by Wikipedia, but a new AI tool developed by startup Primer can help. It scans news stories and scientific studies to find individuals without a Wikipedia entry and generates a basic article about them.
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Wellcome and Gates join bold European open-access plan
Nature
The Wellcome Trust has also announced how it will implement the plan, which could provide a blueprint for others. The Wellcome Trust has also announced how it will implement the plan, which could provide a blueprint for others.
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China backs bold plan to tear down journal paywalls
Nature
Officials pledge support for European-led ‘Plan S’ to make research papers immediately free to read — but it’s unclear whether China will adopt all the plan’s policies. Officials pledge support for European-led ‘Plan S’ to tear down journal paywalls — but it’s unclear whether China will adopt its policies.
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Researchers sign petition backing plans to end paywalls
Nature
Online letter argues that Plan S — which dictates that research papers be immediately free to read — will not impinge on academic freedom, as some critics claim. Online letter argues that Plan S will not impinge on academic freedom, as some critics claim.
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New paper outlines how science is imperiled by ‘post-truth’ politics
Alliance for Science
A new paper published in the top-level journal PNAS describes the challenges posed to scientific knowledge by the proliferation of online misinformation on issues like climate change, vaccines and genetically modified crops. It describes how “profound structural shifts in the media environment” have “enabled unscrupulous actors with ulterior motives increasingly to circulate fake news, misin
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To fight climate misinformation, point to the man behind the curtain
Arstechnica
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Research reveals strategies for combating science misinformation
Yale University
Nowhere has the impact of scientific misinformation been more profound than on the issue of climate change, where a well-funded network has coalesced around the goal of undercutting the legitimacy of climate science. But as a new paper illustrates, an emerging field of research is providing new insights into this critical dynamic.
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Professor shocked students deny science and biology for social justice
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The decline of trust in science “terrifies” former MIT president Susan Hockfield
Vox
If we don’t trust scientists to be experts in their fields, Hockfield says on the latest episode of Recode Decode, "we have no way of making it into the future."
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Pseudoscience is taking over social media and putting us all at risk
Independent
Conspiracy theories are drowning out legitimate facts which could negatively impact human behaviour in the future
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Artificial intelligence and the end of the scientific method
Medium
In an interesting conversation with The Economists Charles Babbage, we arrive upon a precarious position with regards to science toady. The advent of artificial intelligence may upend the entire…
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Anti-intellectualism is taking over the US Patricia Williams This article is more than 8 years old
The Guardian
<p><strong>Patricia Williams:</strong> The rise in academic book bannings and firings is compounded by the US's growing disregard for scholarship itself</p>
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The spread of covid-19 in the South shows the risks of anti-intellectualism
Washington Post
Skepticism about science and expertise has long permeated the Bible Belt.