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APPARENTLY, AGEING HAS SETTINGS? 💎
I went looking for some genuinely good news this morning. Not politics. Not war. Not another billionaire doing something ghastly.
And I found something rather wonderful.
Scientists are increasingly interested not merely in lifespan, but in healthspan. In other words, not just keeping us alive longer while bits fall off, but keeping us healthier for more of the years we're alive.
A large study published this year followed more than 500 mice throughout their lives and found that restricting their daily eating window improved measures of healthy aging in both males and females.
The strongest results came from an eight-hour eating window. Male mice in that group also lived significantly longer, although they were eating somewhat fewer calories as well, so the story is not as simple as “fast and live forever.”
And, importantly, they were mice. Nobody has discovered the Fountain of Youth, and we do not yet know whether the same effects will translate into longer human lives.
But I still find the direction rather exhilarating.
I have practiced time-restricted eating for years, and I know what it has done for my own experience of being 70. I feel lighter in my body. Quieter. Less noise. More clarity.
That is personal experience, not scientific proof.
Perhaps the great achievement of aging research won't be making human beings live to 150. Perhaps it will be much simpler.
Being 80 and still walking. Being 90 and still thinking clearly. Remaining independent longer. Having fewer years at the end, dominated by disease and frailty.
As someone who has somehow arrived at 70 without being consulted about it, I find that rather wonderful.
I have every intention of being a nuisance at 100. Science has made no such promise.
I don't particularly need more life.
But I'll happily take more life in the years I've got.
@meditation
@DigitalCoup
@economics_that_works#Ageing #Healthspan #Science #life #Longevity #HealthyAgeing #Fast #eating #human #Scientists
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APPARENTLY, AGEING HAS SETTINGS? 💎
I went looking for some genuinely good news this morning. Not politics. Not war. Not another billionaire doing something ghastly.
And I found something rather wonderful.
Scientists are increasingly interested not merely in lifespan, but in healthspan. In other words, not just keeping us alive longer while bits fall off, but keeping us healthier for more of the years we're alive.
A large study published this year followed more than 500 mice throughout their lives and found that restricting their daily eating window improved measures of healthy aging in both males and females.
The strongest results came from an eight-hour eating window. Male mice in that group also lived significantly longer, although they were eating somewhat fewer calories as well, so the story is not as simple as “fast and live forever.”
And, importantly, they were mice. Nobody has discovered the Fountain of Youth, and we do not yet know whether the same effects will translate into longer human lives.
But I still find the direction rather exhilarating.
I have practiced time-restricted eating for years, and I know what it has done for my own experience of being 70. I feel lighter in my body. Quieter. Less noise. More clarity.
That is personal experience, not scientific proof.
Perhaps the great achievement of aging research won't be making human beings live to 150. Perhaps it will be much simpler.
Being 80 and still walking. Being 90 and still thinking clearly. Remaining independent longer. Having fewer years at the end, dominated by disease and frailty.
As someone who has somehow arrived at 70 without being consulted about it, I find that rather wonderful.
I have every intention of being a nuisance at 100. Science has made no such promise.
I don't particularly need more life.
But I'll happily take more life in the years I've got.
@meditation
@DigitalCoup
@economics_that_works#Ageing #Healthspan #Science #life #Longevity #HealthyAgeing #Fast #eating #human #Scientists
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Notables gathered at Buckingham Palace (1863) by Thomas Jones Barker, Charles George Lewis.
Source: Wellcome Collection
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/61ef4401-121c-46d6-b08d-f0da8c8c375f
#victorianengland #scientists #military #inventions #mezzotint #art #publicdomain
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Notables gathered at Buckingham Palace (1863) by Thomas Jones Barker, Charles George Lewis.
Source: Wellcome Collection
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/61ef4401-121c-46d6-b08d-f0da8c8c375f
#victorianengland #scientists #military #inventions #mezzotint #art #publicdomain
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People have stereotyped image of scientists.
A white old man with grey hair wearing formal clothes uninterested in most things.
People often call them 'Mad' or 'Crazy' scientists.
People don't give respect that they deserve while they worship some corrupt politicians & characterless celebrities.
Scientists dedicate their lives to making technologies for you.
#science #physics #knowledge #scicomm #research #stem #scientists #opinion #thought #truth #blog #Journalism #psychology
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People have stereotyped image of scientists.
A white old man with grey hair wearing formal clothes uninterested in most things.
People often call them 'Mad' or 'Crazy' scientists.
People don't give respect that they deserve while they worship some corrupt politicians & characterless celebrities.
Scientists dedicate their lives to making technologies for you.
#science #physics #knowledge #scicomm #research #stem #scientists #opinion #thought #truth #blog #Journalism #psychology
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Is it possible an empire can fall that fast?
John says: "The US is now talking about nuclear weapons with China and Russia because their conventional weapons arsenal has been depleted a lot. That shows how much trouble the US is in" --at the 7:20 mark.
I care about reality. I listen mostly to professors when it comes to a lot of subjects. You should consider what Professor John Mearsheimer says.
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Is it possible an empire can fall that fast?
John says: "The US is now talking about nuclear weapons with China and Russia because their conventional weapons arsenal has been depleted a lot. That shows how much trouble the US is in" --at the 7:20 mark.
I care about reality. I listen mostly to professors when it comes to a lot of subjects. You should consider what Professor John Mearsheimer says.
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@GeraldKutney #Climate #deniers don't deal in #science & #truth, & have NEVER done so - the #attack now is quite explicitly against science & truth themselves. If #politics won't do the trick ("climate #scientists are all #communists"), they'll resort to #religion ("climate scientists are all atheists"), & if THAT won't do, they'll resort to #magic, & reject the entire #scientific #enterprise, as it has been constructed since the 17th Century.
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@GeraldKutney #Climate #deniers don't deal in #science & #truth, & have NEVER done so - the #attack now is quite explicitly against science & truth themselves. If #politics won't do the trick ("climate #scientists are all #communists"), they'll resort to #religion ("climate scientists are all atheists"), & if THAT won't do, they'll resort to #magic, & reject the entire #scientific #enterprise, as it has been constructed since the 17th Century.
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In honor of John Horton #Conway : Medium
#Scientists #Discover a #Planet With the Most #Earth-like Conditions Yet : Time
Could this #Msterious #Disappearing #Organ hold the key to #Longevity? : Nature
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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In honor of John Horton #Conway : Medium
#Scientists #Discover a #Planet With the Most #Earth-like Conditions Yet : Time
Could this #Msterious #Disappearing #Organ hold the key to #Longevity? : Nature
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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What scientists are learning after SpaceX debris crashed into the moon
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=what-scientists-are-learning-after-spacex-debris-crashed-into-the-moon
<p>A four-ton upper stage of a SpaceX rocket is believed to have hit the moon at 5,400 mph
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What scientists are learning after SpaceX debris crashed into the moon
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=what-scientists-are-learning-after-spacex-debris-crashed-into-the-moon
<p>A four-ton upper stage of a SpaceX rocket is believed to have hit the moon at 5,400 mph
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Scientists Confirm Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Reshapes Your Gut to Fight Brain Fog After 50
Scientists Confirm Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Reshapes Your Gut to Fight Brain Fog After 50 You walk into a room and forget why you’re…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanOliveOil #OliveOil #confirm #extra #gut #Mediterranean #Oil #Olive #reshapes #Scientists #to #virgin #your
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2756671/scientists-confirm-extra-virgin-olive-oil-reshapes-your-gut-to-fight-brain-fog-after-50/ -
Scientists Confirm Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Reshapes Your Gut to Fight Brain Fog After 50
Scientists Confirm Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Reshapes Your Gut to Fight Brain Fog After 50 You walk into a room and forget why you’re…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanOliveOil #OliveOil #confirm #extra #gut #Mediterranean #Oil #Olive #reshapes #Scientists #to #virgin #your
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2756671/scientists-confirm-extra-virgin-olive-oil-reshapes-your-gut-to-fight-brain-fog-after-50/ -
Scientists Confirm Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Reshapes Your Gut to Fight Brain Fog After 50 https://www.diningandcooking.com/2756671/scientists-confirm-extra-virgin-olive-oil-reshapes-your-gut-to-fight-brain-fog-after-50/ #confirm #extra #gut #Mediterranean #MediterraneanOliveOil #Oil #Olive #OliveOil #reshapes #Scientists #to #virgin #your
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Scientists Confirm Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Reshapes Your Gut to Fight Brain Fog After 50 https://www.diningandcooking.com/2756671/scientists-confirm-extra-virgin-olive-oil-reshapes-your-gut-to-fight-brain-fog-after-50/ #confirm #extra #gut #Mediterranean #MediterraneanOliveOil #Oil #Olive #OliveOil #reshapes #Scientists #to #virgin #your
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#Mars could have lived, even without a #MagneticField : Medium
#Scientists detect a #Sharp #Acceleration in #GlobalWarming : Misc
Most #People Have No #Idea That #Bees Make #Silk – And Scientists Just Worked Out How to Use It : Misc
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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#Mars could have lived, even without a #MagneticField : Medium
#Scientists detect a #Sharp #Acceleration in #GlobalWarming : Misc
Most #People Have No #Idea That #Bees Make #Silk – And Scientists Just Worked Out How to Use It : Misc
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill):
The #censoring of #science by #scientists is getting more and more common. Often, the motives are benign – so why is it a problem?
"The first and most obvious harm is that censoring science blunts our ability to understand the world."
https://open.substack.com/pub/stevestewartwilliams/p/scientists-censoring-science?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3g5oxm -
Steve Stewart-Williams (@SteveStuWill):
The #censoring of #science by #scientists is getting more and more common. Often, the motives are benign – so why is it a problem?
"The first and most obvious harm is that censoring science blunts our ability to understand the world."
https://open.substack.com/pub/stevestewartwilliams/p/scientists-censoring-science?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3g5oxm -
Why #NuclearReactions on an #Exoplanet won’t imply #AlienLife : Medium
#Scientists’ Side #Hustle? Using #AI and #QuantumComputing to Generate New #Peptides : WIRED
Rare #Contagious #Cancer #Discovered in #Wild #Catfish : Nature
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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Why #NuclearReactions on an #Exoplanet won’t imply #AlienLife : Medium
#Scientists’ Side #Hustle? Using #AI and #QuantumComputing to Generate New #Peptides : WIRED
Rare #Contagious #Cancer #Discovered in #Wild #Catfish : Nature
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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The senior Fours, our #candidates for this year at Kasese Municipal High Humanist School did a #biology Practical exam.
It's very refreshing and worthwhile seeing 👀 my students embracing the schools foundation #Science and my dream is realizing a breed of #scientists to aid in solving challenges affecting our people.
Thanks Atheist Alliance International , Uganda Humanist Schools Trust , GlobalGiving etc, staffs and parents of the school for this development.
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The senior Fours, our #candidates for this year at Kasese Municipal High Humanist School did a #biology Practical exam.
It's very refreshing and worthwhile seeing 👀 my students embracing the schools foundation #Science and my dream is realizing a breed of #scientists to aid in solving challenges affecting our people.
Thanks Atheist Alliance International , Uganda Humanist Schools Trust , GlobalGiving etc, staffs and parents of the school for this development.
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Why the Best #Startups Still Use #Monoliths : Medium
Octopuses fall for the ‘rubber arm’ illusion, just like us : Science
How #Indian #Scientists are #Mapping the #Brain's last #Frontier : BBC
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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Why the Best #Startups Still Use #Monoliths : Medium
Octopuses fall for the ‘rubber arm’ illusion, just like us : Science
How #Indian #Scientists are #Mapping the #Brain's last #Frontier : BBC
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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@GeraldKutney Unfortunately not. See Paul Krugman's latest blog post: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fire-this-time. We are talking about people who hate #science, hate #scientists, hate #scholarship, hate #universities, hate #thought, #knowledge, #reason & #facts. These are people who don't believe there is such a thing as #objective #truth - "truth" is what they say it is, what suits their convenience. You can't defeat obscurantism with arguments based on #scientific facts.
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@GeraldKutney Unfortunately not. See Paul Krugman's latest blog post: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fire-this-time. We are talking about people who hate #science, hate #scientists, hate #scholarship, hate #universities, hate #thought, #knowledge, #reason & #facts. These are people who don't believe there is such a thing as #objective #truth - "truth" is what they say it is, what suits their convenience. You can't defeat obscurantism with arguments based on #scientific facts.
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Why The #Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the #PlasticPollution Crisis. In 2019 a nonprofit called The Ocean Cleanup conducted major test of technology designed to remove plastic #pollution from the water. It appeared to work, the nonprofit released photos proclaiming its success. But some #scientists noticed something else among accumulated plastic in Ocean Cleanup’s publicity photos - very damaging catch and kill of floating #marine life trapped in the plastic. #environment https://www.llrx.com/2026/07/why-the-ocean-cleanup-hasnt-solved-the-plastic-pollution-crisis/
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Why The #Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the #PlasticPollution Crisis. In 2019 a nonprofit called The Ocean Cleanup conducted major test of technology designed to remove plastic #pollution from the water. It appeared to work, the nonprofit released photos proclaiming its success. But some #scientists noticed something else among accumulated plastic in Ocean Cleanup’s publicity photos - very damaging catch and kill of floating #marine life trapped in the plastic. #environment https://www.llrx.com/2026/07/why-the-ocean-cleanup-hasnt-solved-the-plastic-pollution-crisis/
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell Altitudes aside, the UK and Northern Europe will experience similar polarities, once the AMOC collapses and sends The Greenland Ice Sheets toward their shores.
Once you start to understand the multiples, let alone exponentials, of accelerating #ClimateCrisis polarities, you'll see how Dr James Hansen comes to his conclusions on how crucial #MilankovitchCycles are to climate #TippingPoints, and then it becomes easier to extrapolate other root infrastructure physics into the equation.
At scale, geopolitics are following the same polaric pattern - especially with an overextended #duopoly like the US has. Then scaling it to abuse of power, to the leaders that need to be replaced by ethical #scientists...
Suffice it to say that these dire, root equations must be made faster, and by more agency laden individuals, comprising a mass uprising rivaling any in human history... sooner rather late... too late.
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell Altitudes aside, the UK and Northern Europe will experience similar polarities, once the AMOC collapses and sends The Greenland Ice Sheets toward their shores.
Once you start to understand the multiples, let alone exponentials, of accelerating #ClimateCrisis polarities, you'll see how Dr James Hansen comes to his conclusions on how crucial #MilankovitchCycles are to climate #TippingPoints, and then it becomes easier to extrapolate other root infrastructure physics into the equation.
At scale, geopolitics are following the same polaric pattern - especially with an overextended #duopoly like the US has. Then scaling it to abuse of power, to the leaders that need to be replaced by ethical #scientists...
Suffice it to say that these dire, root equations must be made faster, and by more agency laden individuals, comprising a mass uprising rivaling any in human history... sooner rather late... too late.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/26/french-beekeepers-fury-lifting-of-pesticides-ban. "Beekeepers & #environmentalists in #France have reacted furiously after #Parliament approved a #Bill re-authorising 2 banned #pesticides #scientists say can #poison #bees... #Bee #populations have already been badly compromised by #Climatechange, new #parasites & loss of #habitat. And now this..."
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/26/french-beekeepers-fury-lifting-of-pesticides-ban. "Beekeepers & #environmentalists in #France have reacted furiously after #Parliament approved a #Bill re-authorising 2 banned #pesticides #scientists say can #poison #bees... #Bee #populations have already been badly compromised by #Climatechange, new #parasites & loss of #habitat. And now this..."
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#Scientists no Longer Find #Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to #Bluesky
Survey distributed to scientists on Twitter & Bluesky (n=813). Results overwhelmingly confirm changes to Twitter have made #socialmedia platform no longer professionally useful or pleasant, many abandoned it in favor of Bluesky. Results show for every reported benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on #X.
https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/65/3/538/8196180?login=false -
#Scientists no Longer Find #Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to #Bluesky
Survey distributed to scientists on Twitter & Bluesky (n=813). Results overwhelmingly confirm changes to Twitter have made #socialmedia platform no longer professionally useful or pleasant, many abandoned it in favor of Bluesky. Results show for every reported benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on #X.
https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/65/3/538/8196180?login=false -
10 #Reality-bending #Facts about the #Scientific #Multiverse : Medium
#Coffee is under #Threat: how #Scientists are #Fighting to save it from #Extinction : Nature
‘#Mind-blowing’: #Iron-rich #Immune #Cells help homing #Pigeons #Navigate : Science
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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10 #Reality-bending #Facts about the #Scientific #Multiverse : Medium
#Coffee is under #Threat: how #Scientists are #Fighting to save it from #Extinction : Nature
‘#Mind-blowing’: #Iron-rich #Immune #Cells help homing #Pigeons #Navigate : Science
Latest #KnowledgeLinks
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Should Scientists Have Research "Reserves" on the Moon?
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=should-scientists-have-research-reserves-on-the-moon
<p>The worlds of the Solar System offer up exciting and (so far) mostly pristine places for planetary
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Should Scientists Have Research "Reserves" on the Moon?
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=should-scientists-have-research-reserves-on-the-moon
<p>The worlds of the Solar System offer up exciting and (so far) mostly pristine places for planetary
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New #Introduction ! We're a #free, #OpenSource tool for working with messy #data. Excel is fine, yeah, but we're 🐐
Convenient clicky-clicky? Yes
Flexible coding? Also yes#Wikimedians love reconciling with #Wikidata. #Journalists love that it works locally, keeping their work safe and private. #Scientists love storing all the changes made to their #datasets in a json. Everyone loves being able to reuse, and share their data wrangling #workflows ! #DataAnalysis #DataScience #Libraries #Foss
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New #Introduction ! We're a #free, #OpenSource tool for working with messy #data. Excel is fine, yeah, but we're 🐐
Convenient clicky-clicky? Yes
Flexible coding? Also yes#Wikimedians love reconciling with #Wikidata. #Journalists love that it works locally, keeping their work safe and private. #Scientists love storing all the changes made to their #datasets in a json. Everyone loves being able to reuse, and share their data wrangling #workflows ! #DataAnalysis #DataScience #Libraries #Foss
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"The #TrumpAdministration has stepped up arrests and public condemnation of federal #scientists studying viruses as the world faces one of its worst #Ebola epidemics." This isn't just incompetence, it's murderous malfeasance. https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/22/health/scientists-prosecutions-campaign
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"The #TrumpAdministration has stepped up arrests and public condemnation of federal #scientists studying viruses as the world faces one of its worst #Ebola epidemics." This isn't just incompetence, it's murderous malfeasance. https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/22/health/scientists-prosecutions-campaign
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From @us.theguardian.com: “ ‘Complete shock and dismay’: #scientists unite against #Trump’s $1tn grant #attack”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/20/trump-grant-funding-attack-scientists
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From @us.theguardian.com: “ ‘Complete shock and dismay’: #scientists unite against #Trump’s $1tn grant #attack”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/20/trump-grant-funding-attack-scientists
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"Matt Kaplan: They were right after all" @ #Podcast "Clear+vivid" with Alan Alda:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2s7GPs9fbWKFjl9od64iwx
"Vivid stories of #scientists whose claims were ignored or ridiculed, from Galileo to Kati Karikó – the woman whose work was critical in developing the mRNA Covid vaccine that saved millions of lives."
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"Matt Kaplan: They were right after all" @ #Podcast "Clear+vivid" with Alan Alda:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2s7GPs9fbWKFjl9od64iwx
"Vivid stories of #scientists whose claims were ignored or ridiculed, from Galileo to Kati Karikó – the woman whose work was critical in developing the mRNA Covid vaccine that saved millions of lives."
#science #research #ignorance #ScienceCommunication