Science
Drug industry sells misleading ads – to doctors
September 2, 201182 percent of the ads placed by drug companies in medical journals violate the Food and Drug Administration's regulations on truthfulness and risk disclosure.
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Black scientists face discrimination in health funding
August 24, 2011Black, Latino and Asian scientists face discrimination in research grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health.
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The Beer Evolution: New yeast discovered in Patagonian forest
August 24, 2011Beer has a history of working-class identity and is now experiencing a revolution of its own, on the microbiological level.
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Major food companies promote childhood obesity
August 18, 2011Governments should ban all advertising of unhealthy food aimed at children and indeed ban the production and sale of such foods entirely.
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Robotics: a dilemma for workers today
August 17, 2011What happens when a robot takes a job away from a living person? Can anything good come of this?
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