People's Science Workshop TCD
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For justice in science, and science in justice! ✊⚙️
Joined January 2019
RT @noteworthy_ie: This proposal is almost 70% funded: . The State has invested over €70 million in a private company who aim to collect th….
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RT @sftpmag: Our interview with Hilary and Steven Rose is out today! As part of our Science Under Occupation issue, Secretary Katherine Bry….
magazine.scienceforthepeople.org
Hilary Rose, a sociologist, and Steven Rose, a neuroscientist, were two of the principal founders of the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS) in the late 1960s in London....
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"Ireland is an extremely rare case in ceding a national genome project to a private company for private enrichment, rather than returning value back to the taxpayer and public – not private – health initiatives.".
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RT @PhDRights: First meeting of the TCD PhD Workers Rights Group next week. Please fill in what date suits you best on this doodle poll. Me….
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RT @ipsc48: Fair play! Nobel Chemistry Prize winner George P. Smith speaks out about the oppression of Palestinians and why we should suppo….
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"Treating these infections would be tough anywhere in the world, but in Gaza it is even tougher. With a health system reeling from the effects of more than a decade of Israeli blockade . MSF is working to provide care that is otherwise unavailable.".
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"To date, Ireland seems to have adopted an entirely commercial approach to genomic medicine. This approach places at risk the free availability bid genomic data for scientific research that could benefit patients" .
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RT @jacobinmag: The growing popularity of using genetic science to address healthcare disparities ignores one big thing: inequality lives i….
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Scientists claim they can solve racial inequalities in health care through genetics. It's a wrongheaded and dangerous approach: Reading race into our DNA will only make racism into scientific...
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RT @GretaThunberg: Great news from Ireland!! Who is next? .And remember: #ClimateEmergency means leaving fossil fuels in the ground. #Clima….
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Great article by one of our members on the worryingly recent history of race science in Ireland and abroad. Make sure to give it a read!
trinitynews.ie
The idea of dividing humans into categories of superiority is not new. In Ancient Greece, Plato believed human reproduction should be monitored and controlled by the state. In the late 1800s and...
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RT @ConorReddy95: Was stunned recently to see some on the left calling for the state to exclude unvaccinated kids from schools and fine par….
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Good article on the resurgence of race science, long but worthwhile read! .
vox.com
When a Republican Congress member tweeted, “We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies,” he was tapping into old themes.
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Good thread on an alternative to costly, exclusive and inaccessible scientific publication🔬.
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RT @ConorReddy95: Psst. Richard C Lewontin, co-author of one of the most popular Genetics textbooks around (one we use in TCD) is a revol….
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"The ideology of the modern competitive market society is then not one of equality of station but one of a natural sorting process aided by universal education in which “intrinsic merit” will be the criterion and source of success." - Richard Lewontin.
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There's nothing natural or innate about inequality — but a long history of pseudo-science will tell you there is.
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RT @NaomiAKlein: Please read from @GretaThunberg:"Once you have done your homework, you realize that we need new politics. We need a new ec….
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In the hands of private companies, even the most liberatory technologies will leave people dying of preventable cancers. It's time to democratise science! ✊🔬
theguardian.com
Federal jury’s decision in case of man who said he used weedkiller for decades could affect hundreds of other plaintiffs
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