AUTHORITY
PUBLISH OR PERISH
The credibility vacuum in scientific research
The ‘replication crisis’ in the scientific method is not an exception and incongruences are not, as we like to tell ourselves, the result of bad apples. Headlines deliberately misconstrue findings, and how we fund science needs much greater scrutiny...
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CRISIS AND COOPERATION
Will Covid-19 strengthen multilateralism?
The current structures for international and regional cooperation are out-dated. The UN has failed in its role as the supposed platform for cooperation and the World Health Organisation has been trapped by global rivalry...
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ON TRACK
The trolley problem of Covid leadership
When problems are novel and there is no clear decision to be made, the decision becomes a dilemma. The 'Trolley Problem' literally puts the ethical problem presented by Covid-19 on rails...
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by Mani Seeber
THE WORLD'S MOST UNFULFILLED PROMISE
Uighurs in China: a genocide of historic proportions
Why practicalities cannot win out over our moral obligations to the Uighurs in China...
ZULU
An early victory in the culture war
Historical films face a peculiar dilemma. They are expected to bear competing burdens: presenting compelling stories on one hand, and respectfully navigating the difficult issues of history on the other. It is rare to find a film which succeeds in both goals...
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by Campbell Edmonds
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ABORT
The human right still up for debate
Abortion is, for many people, an impossible thing to reconcile morally. For others there is an appreciable grey area....
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by Georgia Lea
MIND THE PAIN GAP
The problem of women and pain in science and art
How has the "hysterical woman" become so rooted in our artistic and scientific tradition? Why does it hinder our understanding of women’s pain so detrimentally?
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STORYMAKERS
The importance of diversity within the climate movement
There are activists of colour doing incredible things but their stories are often left out of the narrative. We need global climate activists to truly showcase the horrors of what the climate crisis is doing...
