However fastidious they may be about facts, historians are engaged in storytelling, not science.
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Nov2022 Title 6 Einfühlungsvermögen, storytelling & the one rule of the game: TWE is it an obstacle to our understanding of the past to think that '[n]ovelists are allowed to invent, and historians have to work with verifiable facts'?
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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May2022 Title 6: Brain organoids, consciousness & sentience: working out new boundaries for acceptable investigation into lab-grown, disembodied brains...
From once being hailed as a visionary, to being found guilty of fraud, the Guardian looks back at how Elizabeth Holmes' rhetoric changed as her company sank
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May2022 Titles 3 & 6: Theranos, scientific fraud & ethical boundaries: When experts breach ethical boundaries, TWE does this hinder the overall reputation of natural scientific knowledge?
Computational social science is a powerful research tool. But it needs its different disciplines to find a common language.
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May2022 Titles 3, 5 & 6: Computational social science, surveillance culture & an interdisciplinary approaches: how AI generated datasets enhance expert interpretations of human behaviour but the process needs regulation to allow acceptable investigation into personal information...
I first confronted the issue of the morality of using information obtained from heinous experiments when I was teaching medical ethics at the University of Minnesota...
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May2022 Title 6: National security, war & other justifications for applying knowledge: ensuring that acceptable investigations prevents 'tainted information' from infecting 'the body of scientific and biomedical knowledge'...
From climate to COVID, naivety about how science is hijacked promotes more of the same.
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May2022 Title 6: Sciencyness, agnatology & the 'doubt machine': building up a resistance to uncertainty within the boundaries of acceptable scientific investigation...
Even after Brazil’s “Covid kit” of alternative treatments was shown to be ineffective, doctors were given sales targets to keep prescribing – with official guidance on how t…
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May2022 Title 6: Covid miracle cures, bad science & bad government: exposing unacceptable investigations of 'medical experimentation in humans without ethical clearance, any regard for human rights or, even, for the reliability of the data produced.'
Using urinals, psychological collages, and animated furniture to shock us into reality.
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May2022 Q6: Dada & the art of nihilism: how artists sometimes cross ethical boundaries & engage in what appear to be unacceptable investigations...in order challenge the very nature of our morals...
Starting in 1932, 600 African American men from Macon County, Alabama were enlisted to partake in a scientific experiment on syphilis.
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May2022 Title 6: Scientific racism, Tuskagee study & the future of medical research: applying principle of 'informed consent' can help determine ethical boundaries for acceptable scientific investigation.
Making History Matters of Importance There are several obstacles between Tudor women and their biographers. Bypassing them is a slow but necessary process. Suzannah Lipscomb | Published in History Today Volume 72 Issue 6 June 2022 For a long time – in the view of my publisher far too long a time –...
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Nov2022 Title 6: Henry VIII's wives, gendered judgments & narrow perspectives: how distorted source material is an obstacle to understanding the place of women in the past...
We are a group of archaeologists, anthropologists, curators and geneticists representing diverse global communities and 31 countries. All of us met in a virtual workshop dedicated to ethics in ancient DNA research held in November 2020. There was widespread agreement that globally applicable ethical guidelines are needed...
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May2022 Title 6: Genetic data, indigenous perspectives & scientific progress: Proposing 5 guidelines to help determine the boundaries for acceptable ethical DNA investigations into human remains...
By Dom Birch The writing of history, we are told, is a political occupation—all historians have a political lens through which they work, or view the past. This viewpoint has led to historians convincing themselves that their work can almost always be justified in political terms. Justifying history as politics is doomed from the start: academic…
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May2022 Title 6: Source treatment, respect & empathy: how to transition from writing history as politics to a more ethically acceptable form of historical investigation.
Bizarre Art! Shocking Art! Grotesque Art! Disturbing Art! Art comes in many shapes and forms, but these are some of the most disturbing art pieces ever made.
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May2022 Title 6: The grotesque, body horror & the aesthetics of shock: TWE are artists justified in crossing socially accepted boundaries to make art that satisfies 'the public's need to be challenged'? (Some explicit and disturbing images in article...)
We can’t edit tweets, but we can edit our own DNA.
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May2022 Titles 3 & 6: CRISPR tech, gene supermarkets & the scientific method: how to walk the along the edge of the ethical line which separates acceptable from unacceptable ethical scientific investigations.
By Dr. Maurice Chiodo, Fellow and Teaching Officer at King’s College, Cambridge. Lead investigator of the Cambridge University Ethics in Mathematics Project. @mauricechiodo Mathematics is never done in complete isolation, and mathematicians need to consider the way in which their work impacts
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May2022 Title 6: Math purists, large data sets & the oil pipe problem: TWE are ethical boundaries inapplicable when experts are called on to 'do the math'?
During the 19th Century, a strange new pseudoscientific technique became hugely popular.
Based on the theory that the brain was comprised of 'organs' that operated different parts of the mind, phrenologists claimed they could 'read' an individual's personality and intelligence by merely feeling these organs via the normal lumps and bumps on the head.
Scripted & narrated by Claudia Hammond Video by Dominika Ozynska & Adrian Hartrick
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May2022 Title 6: Phrenology & the art of palpating the skull: How a pseudoscientific investigation into the brain turned out to yield some important insights into its functions...
Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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May2022 Title 6: Infodemic, social media & cybersecurity: what happens when there's no independent regulation of how boundaries are set on an acceptable investigations to acquire knowledge about the use of personal information...
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