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Social Media Conversations in Support of Herd Immunity are Driven by Bots

…Great Barrington Declaration are likely bot-driven. Meanwhile, the conversation opposing herd immunity has much greater diversity, is generally organic and not heavily bot-driven. The topic clusters consisted of: 1) Criticism…

10.30.20 | 6 min read
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Technology & Innovation
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Focused Research Organizations to Accelerate Science, Technology, and Medicine

Summary The next administration should rapidly create new Focused Research Organizations (FROs) to tackle scientific and technological challenges that cannot be efficiently addressed by standard organizational structures including academia, industry,…

09.24.20 | 6 min read
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Science Policy
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Senate Commerce Committee homes in on consumer protection and enforcement in an era of rampant COVID-19-related scams

…protect citizens from predatory business practices. More information can be found about the Day One Project here: https://www.dayoneproject.org/about. To get involved with science policy and the U.S. Congress, sign up here: https://fas.org/congressional-science-policy-initiative/….

08.13.20 | 4 min read
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Nuclear Weapons
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Weekly COVID-19 Disinformation Report for July 20: Masks, microchips, Michigan, and misinformation

…8.5 million followers on Facebook and a substantial reach in digital news media. Numerous disinformation campaigns have emerged against the World Health Organization, Big Pharma, and billionaire Bill Gates under…

07.07.20 | 5 min read
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Science Policy
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The Senate Finance Committee questioned FDA officials about US policies on hydroxychloroquine, the World Health Organization, and supply chain security

…pressed Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials on decision-making around the potential COVID-19 treatment hydroxychloroquine, the Administration’s commitment to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO), and reliance on China…

06.05.20 | 4 min read
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