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Give the gift of "Words" this holiday season!

In Memoriam: Becca Cudmore, science writer

"She Said" [it on the record] -- notes from a fellow #MeToo reporter

Remembering Mike Davis: On the front lines

The Covid-19 pandemic: Failure to predict, failure to report. Part Three -- Who wants to talk about the giant furin cleavage site in the room? [Updated]

The Covid-19 pandemic: Failure to predict, failure to report. Part Two -- Attack of the killer preprints (II)

The Covid-19 pandemic: Failure to predict, failure to report. Part Two -- Attack of the killer preprints (I)

The Covid-19 pandemic: Failure to predict, failure to report. Part One -- Can Republicans be scientific?

The Covid-19 pandemic: Failure to predict, failure to report. Introduction.

U.S. attorneys school Harvard in what Title IX really means, while university continues to enable sexual harasser John Comaroff. But students are not having it. [Updated Sept 15]

The dreaded spotted lanternfly is too pretty to squish. Do we need to rethink our attitude towards "invasive species"?

Bones claimed by a UC Santa Barbara anthropologist to be those of a missing teenager turn out to be not human, but animal, most likely from a cow. Was a fraud perpetrated on a grieving mother?

Is depression due to low serotonin levels? A new umbrella study finds no evidence. Was there ever any?

Recorded live in New York: An all-female defense team at NYU's medical school goes to bat for confirmed sexual harasser David Sabatini. So does the right-wing press.

In Peru, a major travesty of justice: A judge decides a #MeToo truth-teller defamed a powerful former culture minister and twice confirmed sexual harasser. The patriarchy still rules. [Updated Jan 10]

The #MeToo movement is locked in struggle with the enablers of abuse, and with enemies within. Reinforcements needed. [Updated May 23, 2022]

“Cancel culture” hits “Words for the Wise”!

A strange combination of denial and relative passivity in the face of a years-long campaign against reproductive rights has brought us to this day. [Updated June 20, 2022]

An open letter to the academic community to support Peruvian anthropologist Marcela Poirier, threatened with jail for telling the truth about an abuser [updated Apr 5].

The Anti-Racism of Fools: It’s anything that divides us rather than unites us

Friday News and Notes

Corrections to today's Boston photo exhibit post re Catholic clergy

The camera lies, but it also tells the truth: Photographs of the Catholic Church's sex crimes "scandal"

BREAKING NEWS: LEAKED DOCUMENT SHOWS U.S. AND CHINESE SCIENTISTS PLANNED TO GENETICALLY ENGINEER A SARS-LIKE VIRUS BY INSERTING A SEGMENT KNOWN TO MAKE IT MORE INFECTIOUS TO HUMANS

Ear worm Wednesday: "These Days" by Jackson Browne

The case of Harvard anthropologist and sexual abuser John Comaroff: Views from afar, and from nearby.

Welcome to Earworm Wednesday!

When the Hagiography Stops and the Truth-Telling Begins: The Legacy of E.O. Wilson

Enablers gonna enable, credibility discounters gonna discount, and abusers gonna abuse--but abusers can't do it without lots of help.

Spirit of Place: On Calypso's Island

"Words for the Wise" enters Year Two

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