Dan Vergano
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Facebook Users May Spread Russian Propaganda Less Often If They Know Its Source
Russian propaganda is hitting its mark on social media, generating strong partisan reactions that help intensify political divisions. But Facebook users are less apt to press the like button on content when they learn that it is part of a foreign...
Infanticide and Abandonment in the Industrial Metropolis: Gender, Reproduction and Capitalism in Chicago, 1870–1911
This article uses an unprecedentedly extensive data set of 1,270 suspicious infant death investigations from Cook County to measure the incidence of infanticide. We contextualize this data with quant...
Dan Vergano
"Infanticide and Abandonment in the Industrial Metropolis: Gender, Reproduction and Capitalism in Chicago, 1870–1911"
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Money Is the Gatekeeper of Politics
One is mistaken to think that corporations dominate the electoral process in the United States is misplaced. The problem is actually deeper: money structures the field of ideas and sets the terms of the debate. Let me start with a controversial...
Debunking the False Claim That COVID Death Counts Are Inflated
President Trump, a congressman and conspiracy fantasists have repeated the myth. But three kinds of evidence point to more than 218,000 U.S. deaths
Mark Zuckerberg Said Facebook Will Have Fewer Bans After The Election
In a companywide meeting, Facebook’s CEO said recent content rules banning hate and conspiracy content were implemented because of the US presidential election and that a wide margin of victory for ei
Opioid Use Disorder: Consideration of Medication-Assisted Treatment for Real-World Challenges During the Coronavirus Pandemic | NACCME
Dan Vergano
"Opioid Use Disorder: Consideration of Medication-Assisted Treatment for Real-World Challenges During the Coronavirus Pandemic"
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Tired of science being ignored? Get political
The idea that competent researchers are apolitical is false, and it costs lives.
U.S. Diplomats and Spies Battle Trump Administration Over Suspected Attacks
American officials in China, Cuba and Russia say U.S. agencies are concealing the true extent of the episodes, leaving colleagues vulnerable to hostile actions abroad.
Here’s How Private Equity Firms Targeted Republican Sen. John Cornyn With Dark Money To Preserve Surprise Medical Billing
Private equity waged a yearlong dark money campaign so they could continue to profit off of emergency room patients getting hit with exorbitant medical bills. It worked.
Paper Cuts: How Reporting Resources Affect Political News Coverage
Media outlets provide crucial inputs into the democratic process, yet they face increasingly severe economic challenges. I study how a newly salient manifestation of this pressure, reduced reporting ...
FEMA Threw Out The Faulty Ventilators Russia Gave The US Without Ever Using Them
A FEMA spokesperson told BuzzFeed News the agency has “disposed of” 45 Russian ventilators delivered as part of a US–Russia exchange of medical supplies but never used.
30 years later, physics journal retracts paper that blamed feminism for many of society’s ills
Gordon Freeman For those of you who think that critiques of feminism have no place in journals about physics, the Canadian Journal of Physics agrees. But it took them 30 years to get there. The jo…
As Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place
A nationwide operation of 1,300 local sites publishes coverage that is ordered up by Republican groups and corporate P.R. firms.
Health Tech Reporter - STAT
Job Description STAT, a leading health and medicine publication, is looking for a savvy and energetic health tech reporter to join its team. Broadly speaking, this reporter will help shape our coverage of the intersection of technology and health....
How a Road Trip Through America's Battlegrounds Revealed a Nation Plagued by Misinformation
Three weeks unveiled how voters kept repeating things that were false
Herd immunity strategy endorsed by White House a 'ridiculous' way to stop COVID, say scientists — it will just kill people
Herd immunity, the idea that if enough people get a disease it will stop spreading, won't work for COVID-19, say scientists. Trump thinks it could.
Dan Vergano
Herd immunity strategy endorsed by White House a 'ridiculous' way to stop COVID, say scientists — it will just kill people usatoday.com/story/news/hea… via @usatoday
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The US Is Heading Into A Third Wave Of COVID Hospitalizations As Election Day Nears
First the coronavirus ravaged the northeast, then it hit the Sun Belt. Now hospitals across the midwest and northern plains are feeling the strain as COVID-19 continues to stalk the nation.
Will SARS-CoV-2 become endemic?
Reinfection, seasonality, and viral competition will shape endemic transmission patterns
These Scientists Have A Controversial Plan For “Herd Immunity” — And The White House Is Listening
For months, a small group of scientists has pushed policies that mainstream health experts say would cause many more COVID-19 deaths. They just got their biggest audience yet.
Many Doctors Hold Racist Beliefs About How Black People Feel Pain
Black Americans are prescribed addictive painkillers less often than white Americans are, partly because of racist beliefs dating back to the slavery era.