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Populism and medical advocacy: The case of hydroxychloroquine prior the 2020 United States presidential election.
Soc Sci Med
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Department of Social Sciences, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Electronic address:
Leading up to the 2020 U.S. presidential elections, the scientific consensus on hydroxychloroquine's ineffectiveness in treating COVID-19 was dismissed by Executive branch scientists, who promoted it as both a therapeutic solution and a political tool.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSupporting social justice through equity-based actions for a sustainable future in animal genetics (at the 39th International Society for Animal Genetics Conference).
Anim Genet
February 2025
College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa Science, Johannesburg, South Africa.
The 39th International Society for Animal Genetics conference (ISAG) was held for the first time in Africa under the theme 'Animal genetics for a sustainable future' in 2023. The conference convened scientists, policy makers, industry professionals, and students from interdisciplinary fields to share and discuss the latest developments in the space of animal genetics. Since its inception as a society, ISAG has sought to provide a platform advocating for a just and equitable future in animal genetics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlternative models of funding curiosity-driven research.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
February 2025
Department of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZA, United Kingdom.
Funding of curiosity-driven science is the lifeblood of scientific and technological innovation. Various models of funding allocation became institutionalized in the 20th century, shaping the present landscape of research funding. There are numerous reasons for scientists to be dissatisfied with current funding schemes, including the imbalance between funding for curiosity-driven and mission-directed research, regional and country disparities, path-dependency of who gets funded, gender and race disparities, low inter-reviewer reliability, and the trade-off between the effort and time spent on writing or reviewing proposals and doing research.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA frustratingly easy way of extracting political networks from text.
PLoS One
January 2025
School of Government, Adolfo Ibanez University, Santiago, Chile.
This study demonstrates the use of GPT-4 and variants, advanced language models readily accessible to many social scientists, in extracting political networks from text. This approach showcases the novel integration of GPT-4's capabilities in entity recognition, relation extraction, entity linking, and sentiment analysis into a single cohesive process. Based on a corpus of 1009 Chilean political news articles, the study validates the graph extraction method using 'legislative agreement', i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTrust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries.
Nat Hum Behav
January 2025
Department of Psychology, Education and Child Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists.
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