brb writing up an IACUC protocol for future cat-sitters

100% this. Academia is powered by passion exploitation at every level - I'd bet this issue wouldn't exist if journals fairly compensated the reviewers *that they rely on* for their time and expertise.

Mine was Italian Cinema in my freshman year. 3 hours every Wednesday evening. It consisted of a short lecture followed by watching that week's movie, then a discussion about its representation of Italian history and cultural influence.

Thank you for putting this together! Would you mind adding me?

They keep getting written because news outlets love the engagement and outrage farming that these articles produce. The whole point is to piss people off enough to share it even if only to talk about how dumb it is, thus driving more clicks to the site for ad revenue.

“Convergent evidence” doesn’t sound any less jargon-y though, & in any case I don’t think the problem is a lack of public understanding of what a consensus is, it’s that many refuse to trust science that challenges their worldview regardless of the evidence.

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