The Promise of Health Chatbots Has Already Failed
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Not long ago, I noticed a new term trending in social media wellness circles: “certified hormone specialist.” I could have investigated it the old-fashioned way: googling, calling up an expert or two, digging into the scientific literature. I’m accustomed…
Why Are So Many Studies Being Retracted?
Vito Ansaldi Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It’s been a hell of a year for science scandals. In July, Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a prominent neuroscientist, announced he would step down after an investigation, prompted by reporting by the Stanford Daily, found that…
Why the Most Important Doctors Are the Least Well Paid
Islenia Mil Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For nearly three years of med school, I teased my friends who wanted to specialize in surgery. I’d heard stories of tantrums in the operating room, of residents too tired to be friendly, much less teach. But…
Bone Tired. Underpaid. Performing Surgery. What Could Go Wrong?
Dorothy Siemens Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When I visited my cousin Beija in Munich last summer, her boyfriend, Julius, told me he was in his second year of surgery residency, and I was surprised by how well rested he looked. He and Beija…
Hygiene Theater at Restaurants Is Creating Endless Plastic Waste
Curt Merlo For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis, the election, and more, subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter.Andrea Reusing, a James Beard Award–winning chef, has dozens of decisions to make about how to keep her employees and customers safe when she reopens the patio of Lantern, her popular Chapel Hill, North Carolina, restaurant.…
A Rare Species of Tree Was Saved from Australia’s Wildfires. And Then Something Amazing Happened.
NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service personnel inspect Wollemi pine trees in the Wollemi National Park, New South Wales, Australia.NSW National Parks and Wildfire Service/AP This piece was originally published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Buried amid the horrific news from Australia about climate…