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I recently shared a preview of my latest SciSong. See the whole thing here!
Alison spent many summers at camp perfecting her songwriting skills. Now, she enjoys writing songs about science and SciMoms! Here is the first installment, Sta...nd for Facts Not Fear!
Watch the SciSongs section of our website for future SciSongs!
If you like to sing and want to perform this song for us to include on the site, please reach out!
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Layla Katiraee - Biochica said in Science Moms, GMOs are not THE answer, but they are definitely an important part of solutions to very real problems. To deny people who need these solutions access to solutions because of ideology is immoral.
"It’s time to move the argument to a new plane. For the rich and well-fed to deny Africans, Asians or South Americans the benefits of modern technology is not merely anti-scientific. It’s cruel, it’s heartless, it’s inhumane — and it oug...ht to be confronted on moral grounds that ordinary citizens, including those who have been conned into preferring non-GMO Cheerios, can understand.
Travel to Africa with any of Purdue University’s three recent World Food Prize winners, and you won’t find the conversation dominated by anti-GMO protesters. There, where more than half of the coming population increase will occur, consumers and farmers alike are eager to share in the life-saving and life-enhancing advances that modern science alone can bring. Efforts to persuade them otherwise, or simply block their access to the next round of breakthroughs, are worse than anti-scientific. They’re immoral."
"It’s time to move the argument to a new plane. For the rich and well-fed to deny Africans, Asians or South Americans the benefits of modern technology is not m...erely anti-scientific. It’s cruel, it’s heartless, it’s inhumane — and it ought to be confronted on moral grounds that ordinary citizens, including those who have been conned into preferring non-GMO Cheerios, can understand."
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"Science is inherently optimistic. Why else would researchers spend countless hours on frustrating experiments that so often fail? They toil in labs, wade through massive data sets, and point their instruments at the sky because they believe answers to their pressing critical questions exist — if they only search hard enough for them."
7 great science moments of 2017!
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Meet Anastasia Bodnar: Science Communicator! Her Shield of Midwest Kindness protects her from even the nastiest of online trolls.
"Baffling!" Anastasia's catchphrase captures what often feel when countering misinformation. Check our more about us at: http://www.scimoms.com/who-are-we/
And read more from Anastasia Bodnar: Science Communicator on her page.
The Society of Toxicology (SOT) has released an official statement on the safety of genetically engineered food crops.
"Discussions regarding the labeling of foods as containing “GMO” or “GE ingredients” are likely to continue due to consumer demand, but it is not relevant regarding food safety. Evidence accumulated to date demonstrates that biotechnology itself does not present a risk and that the foods produced from current commercial GE crops are as safe and nutritious as those from non-GE sources. Plants with clear differences in risk or safety compared to currently consumed varieties (e.g., introduction of an allergenic protein or removal of an allergen) should have labeling requirements."
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Real Mom Nutrition writes about Science Moms/SciMoms for Parents!
Real Mom Nutrition covered Science Moms/ SciMoms for Parents! Check it out:
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Don’t get between me and sushi, shoes or show tunes! Check out more of our new projects at SciMoms.com.
As we gear up to share more of our adventures in comic form, check out Alison's superpowers! We feel pretty confident with the P-Value Pounce in our arsenal. Keep up at scimoms.com
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Be a fly on the wall of SciMoms Chats!
2017 BioArt winners! Biology is beautiful!
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I'm a Lego figure! #LifeGoals
Check out the first episode of our webcomic as the SciMoms battle misinformation!
The first episode of our new comic! http://www.scimoms.com/comic/the_prologue/
The term wellness has been co-opted by pseudoscience and anti-science. Medicine isn't perfect but that doesn't mean all of it is fake. I would love to be able to talk about wellness (good choices about diet and exercise, for example) without denying the science on vaccines, without suggesting that life-saving technology like insulin is actually killing diabetics, without demonizing people who rely on medication to manage mental health. But instead of approaching wellness from... a science-based perspective, SXSW has gone full woo, making wellness synonymous with anti-science, by inviting the likes of Kelly Brogan - an anti-vax, anti-insulin, anti-medication psychiatrist. #BumpBrogan
"SXSW, the festival to attend if you’re worth being photographed, now appears to embrace a movement that values feelings over facts and rejects crucial advancements in medicine. Perhaps the involvement of an AIDS denier in the pop culture phenomenon that is SXSW is a symptom of our pathological acceptance of alternative facts coming to a head. Perhaps the backlash against the festival's decision to include Brogan offers hope for a growing movement that values facts over beliefs."
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AIDS denialism does not promote wellness. Tell SXSW that having an AIDS denialist on their Wellness Expo Advisory Board is irresponsible and dangerous. Tell them to #BumpBrogan
Tell SXSW that having an AIDS denialist on their Wellness Expo Advisory Board is irresponsible and dangerous. Tell them to #BumpBrogan
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When Goop peddles jade eggs and promotes vagina steaming, we laugh. But giving a platform to an AIDS denialist, who also thinks people with depression should stop taking their meds and that antibiotics are part of the patriarchy, enters a new realm of terrible. Gwyneth, perhaps you should start knowing "what the F we talk about" (her words) because these things are not laughable.
I enjoyed this podcast today to help sort through what's been going on with the herbicide Dicamba.
Hybrid #1: How do we know that every snowflake is unique?
Me: That’s a great question. It’s important to understand why we know things. In fact, the study of how we know what we know is called epistemology.
Hybrid #1: I thought it was knowledge-ology!
Here’s a discussion of whether snowflakes actually are unique that we found.
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A classic from Layla Katiraee - Biochica!
Karl J. Haro von Mogel and I made this infographic about some of the methods used to modify crops. Why is the debate over the "right to know what's in our food"... focusing on only one of these techniques?
To learn more about each crop modification technique and the example provided, please see: http://www.biofortified.org/…/crop-modification-techniques…/
A friend of mine wrote a book! Definitely on my wishlist for the holiday/birthday extravaganza that is December at my house.
"At a time when funding for natural history collections is under siege, Christopher Kemp’s The Lost Species, which champions the irreplaceable value of these collections in the identification of new species, is a refreshing endorsement of both biodiversity and curatorial taxonomic expertise. Kemp shares stories of specialists who use their expertise to recognize new species among the numerous uncataloged and misidentified specimens in natural history museums across the world, from the raccoon-like olinguito discovered in the Chicago Field Museum’s mammal collections to the Ohbayashinema aspeira, a new species of parasitic nematode discovered in the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C."
