The ethical advantage: the economic and social benefits of ethics to Australia – Deloitte (September 2020)
Executive summary At the dawn of the third decade of this century, Australia faces significant challenges – navigating the health
Executive summary At the dawn of the third decade of this century, Australia faces significant challenges – navigating the health
A flood of coronavirus research swept websites and journals this year. It changed how and what scientists study, a Nature
Academics should continue to combine online and in-person research methods after the pandemic, according to experts who said that changes
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The researcher fighting to embed analysis of sex and gender into science Recalled drugs, unsafe products and even environmental chaos
We need more mob writing the papers, so we can move away from just being a problem I am a
The much-hyped drug sparked a battle between power and knowledge. Let’s not repeat it.
IN THE MID-1600S, a Jesuit priest serving in Peru got a useful tip. The indigenous people there, he learned, were using the bark of a particular kind of tree to treat fevers. The priest, who’d probably gone a few rounds himself with the local diseases, got ahold of some of the reddish-brown bark from this “fever-tree” and shipped it back to Europe. In the 1670s, what came to be called Jesuit bark had made its way into a popular patent medicine, along with rose leaves, lemon juice, and wine.
Journals and researchers are under fire for controversial studies using this technology. And a Nature survey reveals that many researchers