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Stopping the Spread of Misinformation: Is Psychological Inoculation the Key?

Union of Concerned Scientists

No,” she replied, “but we do work with the city.” Odd – I was pretty certain that she said that she worked for the city at the beginning of our conversation. The pushy behavior made me more suspicious – I knew then that I definitely would need to check with the city first. I’m sorry, I just can’t today.

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Nuclear Frontline Communities Understand Cumulative Burdens—Let’s Get Policymakers On The Same Page

Union of Concerned Scientists

Louis at the Missouri Coalition for The Environment, works with and is from. Nuclear waste doesn’t care who you are—doesn’t matter how rich you are or what your background is—nuclear materials in your community will hurt you. And that is more of a testament to our medical system and how expensive it can be just to live.

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The European Commission’s New Pharmaceutical Strategy for Europe

Arnold Porter

It highlights anti-microbial resistance (AMR) as a key unmet need, but also paediatric and rare diseases, and argues that investments do not necessarily focus on the greatest unmet needs. Finally, the Strategy considers how competition law enforcement can help address affordability concerns.

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Censorship Laundering By The U.S. Department Of Homeland Security

Environmental Progress

What the platforms chose to do after that was up to them. In so doing, they pioneered the misdescription of censorship laundering as “cyber-security.” At first, an SIO executive claimed in a video for DHS that the idea for EIP came from SIO’s interns, who happened to be working at DHS.

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COVID-19 Workplace Safety Protocols for Government Prime Contractors and Subcontractors: What It Means for Your Business

Arnold Porter

On September 24, 2021, pursuant to that directive, the Task Force issued extensive guidance (Guidance), which, as predicted, includes vaccine mandates for government contractors and subcontractors. Vaccine Mandate v. The vaccine mandate applies to all covered contractor employees—including those who work remotely.[[N:Guidance

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Guide to Parasitology

Environmental Science

Parasitical relationships differ from other areas of ecology in that they not only depend on another species to survive but in the process of doing so, they cause harm to the host. Researchers have extracted masses of practical data and applied solutions to some common problems in the last and are expected to continue to do so in the future.

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Roundup: Problematic COVID-19 Metrics and a Toxic Science Workplace 

Union of Concerned Scientists

At the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, revelations about a toxic workplace and ethics concerns resulted in its director’s departure while the agency is in the midst of essential work to strengthen the scientific integrity infrastructure across the executive branch. Mask mandates fall as the BA.2 2 sub-variant takes over.