Category: Dogmatism
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Autism as a privilege. Not a disease!
Could drama workshops help children with autism-spectrum disorders? Results from a pilot study called Imagining Autism suggests this might be the case. The research involved 22 children aged between 7 and 12 and consisted of one 45-minute session every week for 10 weeks. During this time, groups of four children entered an enclosed themed environment,…
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Guidelines, scientific dogmatism, biased thinking...
The BBC has to adopt "clear editorial guidelines" for its reporting on the issue of climate change, MPs have said. The Science and Technology Committee said the organisation played a "central" role in informing the public. But some editors were "poor" at determining viewers' and listeners' level of expertise and sometimes pitted lobbyists against "top…
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Scientific dogmatism, basic research, arrogance...
For years, some biomedical researchers have worried that a push for more bench-to-bedside studies has meant less support for basic research. Now, the chief of one of the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH’s) largest institutes has added her voice—and hard data—to the discussion. Story Landis describes what she calls a “sharp decrease” in basic research…
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Physics constants not so constant. Unless you assume so...
Australian astronomers have combined all observations of supernovae ever made to determine that the strength of gravity has remained unchanged over the last nine billion years. (1) But is this really the case? How solid is such a conclusion? Digging a little deeper makes things more clear... The original paper can be found here. The…
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Midwifery. Witch hunts. Men’s prejudice. Medicine & dogmatism.
The first clear evidence of clinical benefit from hand hygiene came from Semmelweis, working in the Great Hospital in Vienna in the 1840s. The hospital had two obstetric departments, and women were admitted alternately, whatever their clinical condition, to one or the other. In the first, they were attended by medical students who moved straight…
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