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Science , Artificial Intelligence/ethics , Artificial Intelligence/trends , COVID-19/epidemiology , COVID-19 Vaccines/supply & distribution , Extreme Weather , Humans , Mars , Proteins/chemistry , SARS-CoV-2/genetics , SARS-CoV-2/isolation & purification , Science/trends , United States , United States Food and Drug Administration/organization & administrationSubject(s)
Communication , Leadership , National Institutes of Health (U.S.)/organization & administration , National Institutes of Health (U.S.)/trends , Politics , Science , Behavioral Research , Biomedical Research/organization & administration , Biomedical Research/trends , COVID-19/diagnosis , COVID-19/prevention & control , Federal Government , Fetal Research/legislation & jurisprudence , Gain of Function Mutation , Gene Editing/ethics , Gene Editing/legislation & jurisprudence , Humans , National Institutes of Health (U.S.)/legislation & jurisprudence , Risk-Taking , Science/trends , United StatesSubject(s)
Goals , Leadership , Public Policy/legislation & jurisprudence , Science/legislation & jurisprudence , Science/organization & administration , Technology/legislation & jurisprudence , Technology/organization & administration , China , Climate Change , Competitive Behavior , Cooperative Behavior , European Union , Humans , Pandemics , Politics , Public Policy/economics , Public Policy/trends , Public-Private Sector Partnerships , Science/economics , Science/trends , Social Sciences , Technology/economics , Technology/trends , United StatesABSTRACT
There is a troubling new expansion of antiscience aggression in the United States. It's arising from far-right extremism, including some elected members of the US Congress and conservative news outlets that target prominent biological scientists fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Aggression , COVID-19/prevention & control , Research Personnel/statistics & numerical data , SARS-CoV-2/isolation & purification , Science/statistics & numerical data , Anti-Vaccination Movement/statistics & numerical data , Attitude to Health , COVID-19/epidemiology , COVID-19/virology , Humans , Pandemics/prevention & control , Politics , SARS-CoV-2/physiology , Science/trends , Social Media/statistics & numerical data , United States/epidemiologySubject(s)
Carbon Footprint , Congresses as Topic , Interprofessional Relations , Science , Telecommunications , COVID-19 , Congresses as Topic/organization & administration , Congresses as Topic/trends , Humans , Science/organization & administration , Science/trends , Telecommunications/organization & administration , Telecommunications/trendsSubject(s)
Carbon Footprint , Congresses as Topic , Interprofessional Relations , Research , Science , Telecommunications , COVID-19 , Congresses as Topic/economics , Congresses as Topic/organization & administration , Congresses as Topic/trends , Humans , Research/economics , Research/organization & administration , Research/trends , Science/economics , Science/organization & administration , Science/trends , Telecommunications/economics , Telecommunications/organization & administration , Telecommunications/trendsABSTRACT
The human and social toll of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has already spurred several major public health "lessons learned," and the theme of effective and responsible scientific communication is among them. We propose that Twitter has played a fundamental-but often precarious-role in permitting real-time global communication between scientists during the COVID-19 epidemic, on a scale not seen before. Here, we discuss 3 key facets to Twitter-enabled scientific exchange during public health emergencies, including some major drawbacks. This discussion also serves as a succinct primer on some of the pivotal epidemiological analyses (and their communication) during the early phases of the COVID-19 outbreak, as seen through the lens of a Twitter feed.
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COVID-19/epidemiology , Communication , Science/trends , Social Media , Genomics , Humans , Information Dissemination , SARS-CoV-2/geneticsSubject(s)
Science/trends , Alzheimer Disease/drug therapy , Animals , Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized/pharmacology , Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized/therapeutic use , Astronomy , COVID-19/epidemiology , COVID-19/immunology , COVID-19/prevention & control , COVID-19/virology , COVID-19 Vaccines , Congresses as Topic , Global Warming , Humans , Mars , Open Access Publishing , SARS-CoV-2/immunology , SARS-CoV-2/isolation & purification , Stem Cell Research , Telescopes , United KingdomSubject(s)
Coronavirus Infections , Evidence-Based Medicine , Federal Government , International Cooperation , Pandemics , Pneumonia, Viral , Policy Making , Science/legislation & jurisprudence , Science/standards , COVID-19 , Communication , Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology , Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control , Democracy , Environmental Policy/legislation & jurisprudence , Health Policy/legislation & jurisprudence , Hope , Humans , Pandemics/prevention & control , Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology , Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control , Science/trends , United States , United States Environmental Protection Agency , United States Food and Drug Administration , World Health Organization/organization & administrationSubject(s)
Biomedical Research/legislation & jurisprudence , Climate Change , Federal Government , Foreign Professional Personnel/legislation & jurisprudence , Pandemics/legislation & jurisprudence , Science/legislation & jurisprudence , Science/trends , Space Flight/legislation & jurisprudence , COVID-19 , COVID-19 Vaccines , China , Contact Tracing , Coronavirus Infections/economics , Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology , Coronavirus Infections/prevention & control , Democracy , Disaster Planning , Emigration and Immigration/legislation & jurisprudence , Humans , Intellectual Property , International Cooperation/legislation & jurisprudence , Pandemics/economics , Pandemics/prevention & control , Pneumonia, Viral/economics , Pneumonia, Viral/epidemiology , Pneumonia, Viral/prevention & control , Politics , United States/epidemiology , United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration/legislation & jurisprudence , Viral Vaccines/economics , Viral Vaccines/supply & distribution , World Health Organization/economics , World Health Organization/organization & administrationABSTRACT
This article maintains that via the current form of evidence-based medicine, scientism (a pseudo-religious belief in science that is itself not scientific) has been allowed to encroach into medicine. By setting out the philosophical limits of what it is science can do, the effects of this encroachment are discussed in terms of upsetting the balance between the necessarily conflicting art AND science of medicine. In this context, one effect of the Covid-19 pandemic might be to act as a timely reminder - as if it was needed - of the importance of the Hippocratic Oath, which is and always has been the soul of medicine.
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Evidence-Based Medicine/trends , Science/trends , COVID-19 , Clinical Reasoning , England , Forecasting , Hippocratic Oath , HumansABSTRACT
The COVID19 crisis has magnified the issues plaguing academic science, but it has also provided the scientific establishment with an unprecedented opportunity to reset. Shoring up the foundation of academic science will require a concerted effort between funding agencies, universities, and the public to rethink how we support scientists, with a special emphasis on early career researchers.