23 JULY 2022 Distrust of science is a massive problem. In our current environment, it’s directly leading to people’s deaths. Much of the misinformation we face is intentional and organized, and even worse, research has found lies seem to spread faster online and are often stickier than the truth. So psychologist Aviva Philipp-Muller, now at Simon Fraser …
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22 JULY 2022 The UK MAIB has published a report on the death of a chief officer who was struck in the head by a tensioned mooring line aboard a bulker in 2021, finding that a short-handed operation and an unfamiliarity with the mooring arrangement contributed to his death. On …
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18 JULY 2022 The Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea is shipping more than 50 times the volume of food it usually does at this time of year, likely indicating that seized Ukrainian grain is being taken abroad, according to analysts and the Kyiv School of Economics. The port of Sevastopol shipped …
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21 JULY 2022 We’ve known for some time that anxiety runs in families, but research now suggests that anxiety disorders are passed down from mother to daughter and that having a father without anxiety protects sons from developing the condition. Researchers looked at the role of nature versus nurture in the development …
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20 JULY 2022 There’s a new coronavirus variant traveling around this summer at a record clip. It’s a variant of Omicron called BA.5, and it’s causing a stir largely because it has evolved even further away than other Omicron variants did from the coronavirus we already knew. Previously, getting infected with Omicron …
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19 JULY 2022 Some people experiencing debilitating long COVID symptoms have spent tens of thousands of euros traveling across Europe to access a ‘blood-washing’ procedure that is experimental and unproven. ‘Blood washing’, or apheresis, involves extracting a person’s blood, filtering the blood to remove lipids and inflammatory proteins, and reinfusing …
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