The effort to ‘decolonise’ science is misguided, says Dr John Staddon, a former professor at Duke. The reason women and people of colour are under-represented in science has nothing to do with bias or discrimination.
Prof John Staddon presents three graphs suggesting that rising carbon dioxide levels might have a less immediate and dire impact on planetary temperature changes than previously thought.
A psychology professor has had a bright idea: take the key words that appear in your university's 'vision' statement, ask chatGPT to write a sentence with them in and see if it can do better. Not surprisingly, it can.
The smoking-costs-us folk seem to forget that we all die, even non-smokers. The facts about the health-care cost of smoking are in fact the opposite of the common preconception.
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