Category Archives: Social values

Coffee Break: Science Update, the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The Good, Part the First: Basic Science Has the Answer, Once Again.  T cells of the immune system are responsible for the establishment of self-tolerance and adaptive immune function.  T cells come from the thymus, which is mammals basically disappears early in life in a process called involution. Understanding how the thymus might regenerate has […]

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Moral Means Testing: Utah’s Isolated Homeless “Campus” to Require Education of the Soul Under Trump-Led Push To Divert Attention from Economic Causes of Crisis

Utah aims to produce a model for Trump plan—an isolated “Accountability Campus” where commits will be reformed. Other states and localities are not far behind. 

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Coffee Break: American Science Shattered

American Science, Shattered.  So says is the title of Part 1 of a ten part series in STAT News.  Since STAT articles are usually paywalled, I will summarize them here as they appear.  Unlike most accounts of the current state of science in the United States, the authors of this article have found scientists who […]

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