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Tory MP Edward Leigh, insists that palliative care can prevent pain. "There is no need for [the fear of dying in pain]. When I talk to consultants, practitioners, in palliative care, they say that they can manage pain." This is not correct.
November 29, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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Imagine being a grown-ass professional take-haver and still thinking that science isn't political because E = mc² doesn't care about your feelings.
November 22, 2024 at 4:33 AM
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I'm seeing a lot of free-floating hot takes these days re what scientists "should" and "shouldn't" be doing in today's increasingly anti-science atmosphere.

Philosophers have been discussing this topic for centuries and there is a rich + robust body of scholarship on this topic. As we discuss here.
Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism - npj Climate Action
We argue that Büntgen’s (2024) claim that climate science must be separated from activism is fundamentally flawed. Activism does not inherently lead to biased science and striving for value-free scien...
www.nature.com
November 22, 2024 at 5:16 AM