In this Real News Network interview, Jane Sanders discusses the climate crisis and tells Paul Jay that voters shouldn’t support candidates who claim to be progressive, but don’t prioritize the fight against fossil fuel interests.
Read more...Some economists contend that machine learning and AI can improve economics.
Read more...How global warming is increasing at a faster rate than most realize.
Read more...Very sobering news on the insect front. Species die-off is progressing faster than you probably thought.
Read more...The latest IPCC report says we are cooking our collective goose, and hardly anyone seems to react.
Read more...How the misapplication of an early study on opioid addiction risk help pave the way for overly-casual prescription of these drugs.
Read more...Is the recent vogue for social activity as a remedy for mental distress well founded?
Read more...Social and medical sciences depend on randomised controlled trials, even though they harbor more assumptions and biases than commonly understood.
Read more...On the shortcomings of eyewitness memories, and in particular, forensic sketches based them.
Read more...On the unsavory role of mental health advocacy groups.
Read more...A critique of the monoculture in economics.
Read more...The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a major plastic accumulation zone located between California and Hawaii, is growing at a rate greater than previously believed, according to a new scientific paper published last week.
Read more...Cuba’s entirely state-owned biopharmaceutical industry has been remarkably successful, and can serve as a model for other nations.
Read more...A useful short list on how commercial and competitive pressures have undermined good scientific practice.
Read more...A new book takes issue with the widespread medicalization of depression.
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