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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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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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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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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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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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Arstechnica
Serving the Technologist for more than a decade. IT news, reviews, and analysis.
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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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Wiley Online Library
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Timcast
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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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Independent
Conspiracy theories are drowning out legitimate facts which could negatively impact human behaviour in the future
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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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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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Washington Post
Skepticism about science and expertise has long permeated the Bible Belt.