Claudia Wallis
@claudiawallis1
Health journalist. Columnist for @SciAm. Past editor @TIME & SciAm Mind. Founding editor of @timeforkids. Opinions strictly my own.
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10-04-2012 20:41:03
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The effects of mass shootings ripple into the future, leaving psychological scars. With Sarah Lowe, spoke about this with Claudia Wallis for Scientific American. Thank you to all who are raising awareness of the #mentalhealth consequences of shootings. bit.ly/3zn4ppc
Thank you Claudia Wallis and Scientific American for highlighting our case to make #diabetes screening more equitable. One-size-fits-all does not work when the disease - and its consequences - do not affect us equally. tinyurl.com/ScrforDM Rahul Aggarwal Robert W. Yeh Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo
"No house seat, no office in this land is more important than the principles we swore to protect." --Rep. Liz Cheney
The results of the midterms are still to come, but one big loser was political news coverage. So much horse race, such shallow coverage of issues — when they were covered at all. And not nearly enough focus on the rise of fascism threatening the entire system. A shameful failure.
All my life I’ve tried to use music to bring people together. Yet it saddens me to see how misinformation is now being used to divide our world. I’ve decided to no longer use Twitter, given their recent change in policy which will allow misinformation to flourish unchecked.
This would all have been exposed before the election if local newspapers were not running on fumes. For most of my career in politics, local journalists would have uncovered this during the campaign…not after votes had been cast. This is a big problem. nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyr…
Shall we just turn back the clock to medieval times? Modern medicine has the know-how to detect a lethal fetal abnormality midway through pregnancy and safely spare the mother months of fruitless suffering. But pandering pols in FL think they know better. washingtonpost.com/health/2023/02…
Just published nature New evidence from 70 years ago: Rosalind Franklin was a co-discoverer of DNA's double-helix structure by Matthew Cobb Nathaniel Comfort nature.com/articles/d4158…