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Columbia economics professor Jeffrey Sachs is now saying he is “99% sure” that the University of North Carolina (UNC) conducted extensive gain of function research beginning in 2015 and that this research led to the development of COVID-19. Sachs says he is concerned about unregulated research and the lack of global governance for handling dangerous pathogens. This systemic issue underscores the plausibility of an accidental release from a U.S. lab like UNC. Jimmy and Americans' Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the compelling evidence supporting the conclusion that COVID came from Ralph Baric's research at UNC. Plus segments on Trump wiping out any DOGE savings with increased military spending and how U.S. tariffs are driving African countries to pursue closer ties with China and India. Also featuring Mike MacRae, Moussa Ibrahim and Stef Zamorano. And a phone call from Alec Baldwin!
"I had lost my period for a year. I was definitely not eating nearly enough, eating healthy to an extreme point...it was a very unhealthy relationship with my body," shares Natalie Tyner, who was a North Carolina State Champion in high school and went on to compete collegiately for University of NortH Carolina (UNC). Natalie is now focusing her work on supporting high school athletes who are preparing to compete at a higher level, navigating mental health, performance nutrition, and balancing their training with adequate rest. She's doing this work because she knows how hard it is to compete at the D1 level, and wants future athletes to be more prepared than she was. In this episode we talk about: the knee injury Natalie has been navigating for a few years feeling wholly unprepared for the college athlete experience, and running at a higher level, during her freshman year of college the disordered eating, and hypothalamic amenorrhea she experienced in high school, and how a cookbook can sometimes feel like a rule book the performance anxiety that plagued her running experience for years the culture around food, body image, and periods that she experienced during her collegiate experience and both why and how she came into the work she does now, supporting high school athletes as they prepare for the collegiate athlete life Follow Natalie @NatSportPrep on IG to connect with her. Follow @Lane9project, and visit Lane9Project.org where we house our resources, including our Clinician Directory. If you are also struggling with disordered eating, hypothalamic amenorrhea, and/or performance anxiety (or other mental health issues), our directory of women's health and sport clinicians are here to help. We'll match you with a provider in your area.
AT Parenting Survival Podcast: Parenting | Child Anxiety | Child OCD | Kids & Family
How do we help our children with OCD have a better quality of life? Our child's OCD is more than just Exposure Response Prevention (ERP) therapy. It is more than just their intrusive thoughts and their compulsions.How do we help them with self-esteem? The feeling of guilt and shame? The struggles of navigating school and family relationships? In Dr. Jonathan Abramowitz's new book, Living Well with OCD, he tackles the bigger question - how can people live a fulfilling life with OCD?Jonathan Abramowitz is a psychologist with a private practice in North Carolina. He is also the Professor and Associated Chair of Psychology at the University of North Carolina (UNC). In this week's episode of the AT Parenting Survival Podcast I invited Dr. Abramowitz to share his insights on how we can help our kids live a fulfilling life, despite OCD.Check out Dr. Jonathan Abramowitz's book, Living Well with OCD here.
Are Vaccines Good For Us? Marschall S. Runge, M.D., Ph.D., was born in Austin, Texas, and graduated from Vanderbilt University with a BA in General Biology and a PhD in Molecular Biology. He received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and trained in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was a cardiology fellow and junior faculty member at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Runge's next position was at Emory University, where he directed the Cardiology Fellowship Training Program. He then moved to the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where he was Chief of Cardiology and Director of the Sealy Center for Molecular Cardiology. He joined the University of North Carolina (UNC) from 2000 – 2014, where he served as Charles Addison and Elizabeth Ann Sanders Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Chair of the Department of Medicine, President of UNC Physicians and Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs. Dr. Runge visits with Mark Alyn.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/late-night-health-radio--2804369/support.
Are Vaccines Good For Us? Marschall S. Runge, M.D., Ph.D., was born in Austin, Texas, and graduated from Vanderbilt University with a BA in General Biology and a PhD in Molecular Biology. He received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and trained in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was a cardiology fellow and junior faculty member at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Runge's next position was at Emory University, where he directed the Cardiology Fellowship Training Program. He then moved to the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, where he was Chief of Cardiology and Director of the Sealy Center for Molecular Cardiology. He joined the University of North Carolina (UNC) from 2000 – 2014, where he served as Charles Addison and Elizabeth Ann Sanders Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Chair of the Department of Medicine, President of UNC Physicians and Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs. Dr. Runge visits with Mark Alyn.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/late-night-health-radio--2804369/support.
In this episode of Going anti-Viral, Dr Michael Saag speaks with Dr Joseph Eron, Professor of Medicine at University of North Carolina (UNC) about the topic of his upcoming presentation at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) 2025: HIV Cure Research: State of the Art and Navigating Presentations at CROI 2025. Dr Eron discusses the state of HIV cure research including a detailed discussion of why it has been so difficult to develop a cure for HIV. Dr Saag and Dr Eron discuss the difference between HIV cure and functional cure and provide a detailed overview of cure research efforts looking at blocking and locking HIV in human DNA. Dr Saag and Dr Eron also discuss the potential for “molecular scissors” (CRISPR-Cas9) to cure HIV. Finally, they provide an overview of cure research that will be presented at CROI, highlighting the plenary presentation by Dr Ole Søgaard at CROI on Monday March 10 entitled HIV Cure: A Translational Research Perspective. For more information about the topic of this episode, listen to an earlier episode of Going anti-Viral where Dr Saag discusses Vaccine Development with Dr Richard Koup, see links in the resources below. 0:00 – Introduction1:31 – Defining cure in the context of HIV4:56 – Why is it so hard to cure HIV7:56 – What is functional cure11:47 – Description of the concept of “block and lock” in human DNA14:33 – Discussion of tat inhibitors – blocking of HIV regulatory genes18:02 – Prospect of using “molecular scissors” (CRISPR-Cas9) as a cure23:13 – Highlights in HIV cure research at CROI and closing remarksResources: CROI 2025: https://www.croiconference.org/Going anti-Viral Episode 4 – A Deep Dive into Vaccine Development with Dr Richard Koup: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-4-a-deep-dive-into-vaccine-development-with/id1713226144?i=1000637677124 YouTube: https://youtu.be/nXeMt3GMj4Q __________________________________________________Produced by IAS-USA, Going anti–Viral is a podcast for clinicians involved in research and care in HIV, its complications, and other viral infections. This podcast is intended as a technical source of information for specialists in this field, but anyone listening will enjoy learning more about the state of modern medicine around viral infections. Going anti-Viral's host is Dr Michael Saag, a physician, prominent HIV researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and volunteer IAS–USA board member. In most episodes, Dr Saag interviews an expert in infectious diseases or emerging pandemics about their area of specialty and current developments in the field. Other episodes are drawn from the IAS–USA vast catalogue of panel discussions, Dialogues, and other audio from various meetings and conferences. Email podcast@iasusa.org to send feedback, show suggestions, or questions to be answered on a later episode.Follow Going anti-Viral on: Apple Podcasts YouTubeXFacebookInstagram...
On this episode of Conduct Detrimental: THE Sports Law Podcast, Dan Lust (@SportsLawLust) is joined by Tarun Sharma (@tksharmalaw) and Jason Morrin (@Jason_Morrin) to share the latest in college football, the NFL, and a record-breaking contract for Juan Soto and the New York Mets. Bill Belichick, the former New England Patriots head coach with six Super Bowl rings, has been appointed the head football coach at the University of North Carolina (UNC). At 72, this marks his first foray into college coaching, succeeding Mack Brown, UNC's all-time wins leader. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Wednesday said allegations against Jay-Z won't impact the league's relationship with Roc Nation... Ohio State Representative Josh Williams has introduced the "O.H.I.O. Sportsmanship Act," aiming to classify the act of planting a flag at the center of Ohio Stadium as a fifth-degree felony. This legislative move follows a recent altercation during the Ohio State-Michigan game, where such an act led to a brawl. There is a growing movement among college athletes advocating for the establishment of a formal players' association and Juan Soto has signed a historic 15-year, $765 million contract with the New York Mets, marking the largest deal in professional sports history. Let us know your thoughts! Thank you, as always, for listening with us. *** Have a topic you want to write about? ANYONE and EVERYONE can publish for ConductDetrimental.com. Let us know if you want to join the team. As always, this episode is sponsored by Themis Bar Review: https://www.themisbarsocial.com/conductdetrimental Host: Dan Lust (@SportsLawLust) Featuring: Tarun Sharma (@tksharmalaw) Produced by: Mike Kravchenko (Watch on YouTube) Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Website | Email --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/condetrimental/support
On this episode of Conduct Detrimental: THE Sports Law Podcast, Dan Lust (@SportsLawLust) is joined by Tarun Sharma (@tksharmalaw) and Jason Morrin (@Jason_Morrin) to share the latest in college football, the NFL, and a record-breaking contract for Juan Soto and the New York Mets. Bill Belichick, the former New England Patriots head coach with six Super Bowl rings, has been appointed the head football coach at the University of North Carolina (UNC). At 72, this marks his first foray into college coaching, succeeding Mack Brown, UNC's all-time wins leader. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Wednesday said allegations against Jay-Z won't impact the league's relationship with Roc Nation... Ohio State Representative Josh Williams has introduced the "O.H.I.O. Sportsmanship Act," aiming to classify the act of planting a flag at the center of Ohio Stadium as a fifth-degree felony. This legislative move follows a recent altercation during the Ohio State-Michigan game, where such an act led to a brawl. There is a growing movement among college athletes advocating for the establishment of a formal players' association and Juan Soto has signed a historic 15-year, $765 million contract with the New York Mets, marking the largest deal in professional sports history. Let us know your thoughts! Thank you, as always, for listening with us. *** Have a topic you want to write about? ANYONE and EVERYONE can publish for ConductDetrimental.com. Let us know if you want to join the team. As always, this episode is sponsored by Themis Bar Review: https://www.themisbarsocial.com/conductdetrimental Host: Dan Lust (@SportsLawLust) Featuring: Tarun Sharma (@tksharmalaw) Produced by: Mike Kravchenko (Watch on YouTube) Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | YouTube | Website | Email --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/condetrimental/support
Before we kick in to the show today, I just want to make two points. Here's the first point. Together, we can do it. No one said transforming healthcare and elevating patients over profits would be easy. And it is not. It's really, really hard. I just want to say thanks for all that you have accomplished, Relentless Health Value (RHV) tribe members. These are the things that matter to, really, our entire country, friends, family, patients, members, and in so many ways is really worth it. For a full transcript of this episode, click here. If you enjoy this podcast, be sure to subscribe to the free weekly newsletter to be a member of the Relentless Tribe. Second point I want to make is to thank everybody who has left a tip in our tip jar. Some people have even left recurring donations, which, wow, my faith in humanity is restored when I see my people offering their financial support this way. I feel this way because (a) I don't usually ask for financial support on the pod, even though it's something that is certainly on my mind a lot, and (b) those who offer financial support, at least at this time, don't get anything other than knowing that their help helps this podcast continue, which, again, just warms my heart. The show today is a companion, I'm gonna say, to episode 446, also with Dr. Spencer Dorn. In the first show, we didn't talk about the impact of EHR (electronic health record) systems; and in a similar vein today, we're not gonna talk about the impact of artificial intelligence. I'm phrasing this in this kind of odd way because that earlier conversation with Dr. Dorn was about Kranzberg's First Law of Technology. And this one is, too, where Melvin Kranzberg says, “Don't ascribe any given technology a label of good, bad, or even neutral.” Point being, let's not sit around blaming or crediting a technology for downstream consequences. After all, I mean, if we're thinking about just EHR instances, there's EHR instances where it takes 60 clicks for a doctor to order a patient Tylenol—60 clicks! Then, same EHR system installed in a different hospital? It can take 2 clicks. Those excess 58 clicks aren't because of the technology itself. They're because the technology was configured poorly by humans involved in configuring the technology. And if that technology then results in burnout or moral injury or someone insisting on measuring 58 quality measures in the most labor-intensive way possible, that's a function of how that tool is used or configured, not anything inherent in that technology itself. So, yeah … watch where those fingers are pointing. And all of this is equally relevant to artificial intelligence. As Dr. Dorn says, there's no intrinsic property of the technology—any technology—that determines the outcome. It's how we use it, how we implement it, how we put it into daily practice that really ultimately is the arbiter of what happens and how it impacts lives. I'd also just add even if the tech itself has some glitches or hallucinates, someone decided to use it in the current form it's in. So … yeah. So, the first takeaway from this short show focused on artificial intelligence is gonna be the same, really, as it was in episode 446 about EHRs. Do not ascribe any given technology a label of, as I said, good, bad, or even neutral. That is, as I just said, Kranzberg's First Law of Technology; and it applies here, too. Second major takeaway—and again, this is the same as in that earlier show about EHRs, but today we're talking about AI—if you're thinking about the ultimate impact of the people and the processes that have some technology in their midst (technology, again, such as AI, artificial intelligence), the ultimate impact will not be a black-and-white binary. We talk about some of these nuanced not binaries in the 10 minutes that follow, but for more, I've put some links below for some newsletters et cetera to check out. One last thing before we get into the show today. Speaking of AI, I asked Google about myself; and this is what the Google AI bot replied: “Richter is also co-president of Aventria Health Group, a consultancy, and QC Health, a public benefit corporation.” Okay, so far so good. “She has also been recognized for her work on Relentless Health Value by winning the Edward R. Murrow Award.” Hmmm … Just for the record, I did not win the Edward R. Murrow Award, which is actually a really prestigious broadcast media award. So … yeah. This podcast is, in fact, factually sponsored by Aventria Health Group. And with that, here is my conversation with Dr. Spencer Dorn about, but not about, artificial intelligence. Dr. Spencer Dorn is a practicing gastroenterologist. He also helps lead a large academic practice and works in healthcare IT and clinical informatics. Artificial intelligence links from the past couple months to check out, as promised: AI Health Uncut newsletter by Sergei Polevikov, ABD, MBA, MS, MA
Ben Moon is a photographer and filmmaker who has integrated his passion for the outdoors into his work, including as a longtime contributor to Patagonia with climbing and surfing imagery in particular. Dogs have always been part of Ben's life, but it was after a divorce, living out of a car, and then a colon cancer diagnosis at 29, that the companionship with his rescue dog Denali, a pit-husky mix, took on a new meaning. Their strong connection was highlighted in a 2015 short film called ‘Denali' which honors his late dog and has amassed over two million views. As a follow-up, Ben then wrote a 2020 memoir, also entitled Denali, that took an even more introspective look at the power of their human-dog relationship. Now at a new life stage, with his 8-year-old rescue dog Nori, an Australian shepherd and husky mix, they have settled down in a beach house on the Oregon Coast. Ben is learning to appreciate the slow build and the benefits that come from settling down in one place.Ben speaks about his life journey and dogs with Dr. Sharon Holland, an author and distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina (UNC), as well as the host for Dog Save The People.For more information about the episode, guest, and featured links: www.dogsavethepeople.com/episodes/ben-moon-2024
Thank you so much for listening to this podcast whatever podcasts you listen to anywhere in the world. For comment and/or inquires please contact me at Shawn47k@gmail.com Shawn's Steals CFB(Week 4) & NFL Picks(Week 3) 2024-25 CFB 2024- 25 Week 4 Point Total Over or Under? USC at Michigan- USC 46.5 Under Miami at South Florida- Miami(FL) 65 Under Utah at Oklahoma St- Oklahoma St 52.5 Over Kansas St at BYU- Kansas St 47.5 Under James Madison at North Carolina- UNC 47.5 Under TCU at SMU- TCU 57.5 Under Tennessee at Oklahoma- Tennessee 57.5 Over Shawn's Steals NFL Picks 2024-25 Week 3 New England at N.Y. Jets- N.Y. Jets 37.5 Under Chicago at Indianapolis- Indianapolis 42.5 Over Philadelphia at New Orleans- New Orleans 49.5 Over L.A. Chargers at Pittsburgh- Chargers 36 Under Denver at Tampa Bay- Tampa Bay 39.5 Under Green Bay at Tennessee- Green Bay 36.5 Under N.Y. Giants at Cleveland- Cleveland 38.5 Under Carolina at Las Vegas- Las Vegas 40.5 Under Detroit at Arizona- Detroit 52.5 Over Miami at Seattle- Seattle 41 Over Baltimore at Dallas- Baltimore 49 Over San Francisco at L.A. Rams- San Francisco 43.5 Over Kansas City at Atlanta- Kansas City 46.5 Under Houston at Minnesota- Minnesota 45.5 Over Jacksonville at Buffalo- Buffalo 45.5 Over Washington at Cincinnati-Cincinnati 48.5 Under
Marianne Leone is an actress, screenwriter, essayist, and author. She is well-known for her recurring role in The Sopranos. After her son, Jesse, had been diagnosed with cerebral palsy and passed at a young age, Marianne found comfort in dogs. From Goody, who had been Jesse's best friend, to current dogs of Titi and Sugar, the mix of bichon's have provided great comfort. Along with her husband, Chris Cooper, they have been able to find joy amidst hardship. Marianne's latest book, Five-Dog Epiphany, honors the positive impact of these dogs on her life.The host for this episode is Dr. Sharon Holland, a Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and contributing host for Dog Save The People.For more information about the episode, guest, and featured links:www.dogsavethepeople.com/episodes/marianne-leone-2024
This show is about getting or not getting patient outcomes and getting them in an efficient or not efficient way that is in alignment or not in alignment with the values of clinicians trying to care for their patients in the best way that they can. And I'm beginning this conversation with this preface, lest anyone lose track of the ends which we seek, which are Quadruple Aim–type goals. For a full transcript of this episode, click here. If you enjoy this podcast, be sure to subscribe to the free weekly newsletter to be a member of the Relentless Tribe. I'm starting here so that we don't get confused between what is a goal and what is a means to achieve a goal because today we're sort of gonna talk about technology, but we're really not gonna talk about technology. And if we're not gonna talk about technology, then, of course—because go big or go home on this show—we're not gonna talk about the mother of all healthcare technology: EHR systems (electronic health records). Ah, so cryptic, but let's proceed. I want to dig in here because this is really important, actually, to everybody, including (and especially) anyone buying healthcare services such as employers. It's also a level set for anyone involved in or about the purveyance of said healthcare services. Here's my first point. Conversations about technology may be unduly focused on technology, and this includes EHRs. I saw a Tweet recently by Joshua Liu that struck me because it really mirrors my own experience working with clinical teams. Joshua wrote, “Let me show you … why studies evaluating the same tech can have very different outcomes. Why the very same tech implemented with different workflows and people can lead to wildly different results.” See the great (and pretty funny, actually) visual that Joshua Liu made about this, but the point is this: Technology is not a thing unto itself. It is not a magic pill like those gelatin caps that you can buy at toy stores and when you toss them in the bathtub, they expand into surprisingly large foam dinosaurs. I mean, you can buy any given healthcare, digital technology, anything … and what doesn't pop out of the box along with purchase are any sort of “why” for an end user to actually use the thing, or implementation plans, processes, change management, empowered people who are bought in, adequate training, adequate staffing levels, and ongoing communication. So, look … here's the point. Unlike the bass, it's not all about the tech. There are people; there are processes. I say all this to say, it's weird to me; and Spencer Dorn, MD, MPH, MHA, my guest today, said pretty much the same thing. It's weird to me how we evaluate technology, and this includes EHRs and patient portals, which we talk about today, and even AI, which we will talk about in a shorter episode that will air in September. But it is so very, very common to talk about tech like it exists in a vacuum and is an end unto itself. For example, you hear often enough people talking about optimizing the EHR. Maybe instead, the title of the conversation should be “Optimizing the Patient-Doctor Encounter” or “Optimizing Patient Health” or “Optimizing the Ability of Clinicians to Work Together as a Team.” Tech is certainly a vehicle to achieve these goals. But whether said tech is a force of good or bad or something in the middle, or succeeds or fails, isn't inherent in the tech itself. As Dr. Dorn says, there is no intrinsic property of the technology that determines the outcome. It's how we use it, how we implement it, how we put it into daily practice, is really, ultimately, the arbiter of what happens and how it impacts lives. I'd also add, just to be a bull in the china shop, even if the tech itself has some glitches, someone decided to make everyone use it in its current form. So … yeah. Therefore, first takeaway from this show is going to be don't ascribe any given technology a label of good or bad or even neutral. This, by the way, is Kranzberg's First Law of Technology, which, of course, comes up because you know me … I cannot miss any opportunity to nerd out over something like Kranzberg's First Law of Technology. And that wraps up takeaway one: Technology by itself is not good or bad or even neutral. Reference Kranzberg's First Law of Technology. Thank you, Melvin Kranzberg. Second major takeaway is that if you're thinking about the ultimate impact of people and processes that have some technology in their midst, technology such as an EHR system, the ultimate impact will not be a black or white binary. Let's just acknowledge that we as humans love binaries, especially polarized binaries, because it's very tidy. Putting things in clear boxes removes ambiguousness that our lizard brains just do not like. But I'm keeping in mind what Tom X. Lee, MD, said on episode 445 last week. Most things in life, IRL, are somewhere in the gray murky middle. And if we understand that, we can make that middle space productive. Dr. Lee called it the productive middle. Here's how I'd put it: Don't be an edgelord. It's generally not a fact-based place to be, but also, it's not productive. Dr. Spencer Dorn and I discuss all of the above, and he makes some great points and he's very articulate. Here's the three dimensions (lots of nuances). Listen to the show for a ton of nuances, but just top-line: 1. EHR-embedded operations have the capacity to empower clinicians with information and/or overwhelm clinicians with information. Most likely what's going on will be somewhere in the middle of these two poles. 2. Impact, which is so often stated as a binary that is actually not a binary but, again, a continuum. An EHR deployment may extend or diminish human connections between docs and patients and between clinicians working together. 3. Not a binary but a continuum is whether operations with EHRs (or any tech really) make clinicians more effective and efficient or less effective and efficient from a clinician standpoint. Dr. Spencer Dorn, my guest today, is a gastroenterologist practicing in North Carolina. He spends his time doing a few different things. That includes taking care of patients. He also helps lead a large academic practice. And lastly, Dr. Dorn works in healthcare IT and clinical informatics. So, therefore, the perfect guest to talk about this whole topic with today. This is a really interesting conversation, so I hope you listen to it. Also mentioned in this episode are UNC Department of Medicine; Joshua Liu, MD; Tom X. Lee, MD; Robert Wachter, MD; and Shawn Gremminger. You can learn more at the UNC Department of Medicine Web site and by following Dr. Dorn on LinkedIn. Spencer Dorn, MD, MPH, MHA, is vice chair and professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina (UNC), where he works to develop care models that best support clinicians and meet patients' needs, serves as a UNC lead informatics physician, conducts clinical trials, and examines the broad forces shaping healthcare. Clinically, he works with adults experiencing disorders of gut-brain interaction and GI motility. 06:15 Breaking down Kranzberg's Laws of Technology. 08:16 How do EHRs go right? 12:49 “EHRs empower us with information, yet they also overwhelm us with information.” 16:00 How do EHRs bring healthcare workers closer together? 19:35 The Digital Doctor by Robert Wachter. 21:33 “The whole point of healthcare is to help people live healthier, happier lives.” 22:41 How the same EHR deployed in different places can be more or less efficient. 25:51 Why the problem is not necessarily the EHR but actually operational. 28:51 How technology has also changed our expectations on timing and value. You can learn more at the UNC Department of Medicine Web site and by following Dr. Dorn on LinkedIn. Spencer Dorn, MD, of @UNC_SOM discusses #patientoutcomes using #healthtech on our #healthcarepodcast. #healthcare #podcast #financialhealth #primarycare #patientoutcomes #healthcareinnovation Recent past interviews: Click a guest's name for their latest RHV episode! Dr Tom Lee, Paul Holmes (Encore! EP397), Ann Kempski, Marshall Allen (tribute), Andreas Mang, Abby Burns and Stacey Richter, David Muhlestein, Luke Slindee, Dr John Lee, Brian Klepper
On this episode of Women for America, Concerned Women for America's Executive Vice President, Annabelle Rutledge is joined by one of the brave fraternity brothers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) who protected the American flag after it was ripped down by pro-Palestine protestors on campus.
There was so much to talk about—this is the longest Ground Truths podcast yet. Hope you'll find it as thought-provoking as I did!Transcript, with audio and external links, edited by Jessica Nguyen, Producer for Ground TruthsVideo and audio tech support by Sinjun Balabanoff, Scripps ResearchEric Topol (00:00:05):This is Eric Topol from Ground Truths, and I am delighted to have with me Holden Thorp, who is the Editor-in-Chief of the Science journals. We're going to talk about Science, not just the magazine journal, but also science in general. This is especially appropriate today because Holden was just recognized by STAT as one of the leaders for 2024 because of his extraordinary efforts to promote science integrity, so welcome Holden.Holden Thorp (00:00:36):Thanks Eric, and if I remember correctly, you were recognized by STAT in 2022, so it's an honor to join a group that you're in anytime, that's for sure, and great to be on here with you.Eric Topol (00:00:47):Well, that's really kind to you. Let's start off, I think with the journal, because I know that consumes a lot of your efforts and you have five journals within science.Holden Thorp (00:01:02):Oh, we have six.Eric Topol (00:01:03):Oh six, I'm sorry, six. There's Science, the original, and then five others. Can you tell us what it's like to oversee all these journals?Overseeing the Science JournalsHolden Thorp (00:01:16):Yeah, we're a relatively small family compared to our commercial competitors. I know you had Magdalena [Skipper]on and Nature has I think almost ninety journals, so six is pretty small. In addition to Science, which most people are familiar with, we have Science Advances, which also covers all areas of science and is larger and is a gold open access journal and also is overseen by academic editors, not professional editors. All of our other journals are overseen by professional editors. And then the other four are relatively small and specialized areas, and probably people who listen to you and follow you would know about Science Translational Medicine, Science Immunology, Science Signaling and then we also have a journal, Science Robotics which is something I knew nothing about and I learned a lot. I've learned a lot about robotics and the culture of people who work there interacting with them.Holden Thorp (00:02:22):So we have a relatively small family. There's only 160 people who work for me, which is manageable. I mean that sounds like a lot, but in my previous jobs I was a provost and a chancellor, and I had tens of thousands of people, so it's really fun for me to have a group where I at least have met everybody who works for me. We're an outstanding set of journals, so we attract an outstanding group of professionals who do all the things that are involved in all this, and it's really, really fun to work with them. At Science, we don't just do research papers, although that's a big, and probably for your listeners the biggest part of what we do. But we also have a news and commentary section and the news section is 30 full-time and many freelancers around the world really running the biggest general news operation for science that there is. And then in the commentary section, which you're a regular contributor for us in expert voices, we attempt to be the best place in the world for scientists to talk to each other. All three of those missions are just really, really fun for me. It's the best job I've ever had, and it's one I hope to do for many years into the future.Eric Topol (00:03:55):Well, it's extraordinary because in the four and a half years I think it's been since you took the helm, you've changed the face of Science in many ways. Of course, I think the other distinction from the Nature Journals is that it's a nonprofit entity, which shows it isn't like you're trying to proliferate to all sorts of added journals, but in addition, what you've done, at least the science advisor and the science news and all these things that come out on a daily basis is quite extraordinary as we saw throughout the pandemic. I mean, just reporting that was unparalleled from, as you say, all points around the world about really critically relevant topics. Obviously it extends well beyond the concerns of the pandemic. It has a lot of different functions, but what I think you have done two major things, Holden. One is you medicalized it to some extent.Eric Topol (00:04:55):A lot of people saw the journal, particularly Science per se, as a truly basic science journal. Not so much applied in a medical sphere, but these days there's more and more that would be particularly relevant to the practice of medicine, so that's one thing. And the other thing I wanted you to comment on is you're not afraid to speak out and as opposed to many other prior editors who I followed throughout my career at Science, there were pretty much the politically correct type and they weren't going to really express themselves, which you are particularly not afraid of. Maybe you could comment about if you do perceive this medicalization of science to some extent, and also your sense of being able to express yourself freely.Capturing the Breakthroughs in Structural BiologyHolden Thorp (00:05:48):Yeah, well, you're kind to say both of those things are certainly things we have worked at. I mean, I do come from a background, even though I'm trained as a chemist, most of what I did towards the latter end of my career, I mean, I did very basic biochemistry when I was a researcher, but the last part of my research career I worked in on development of a drug called Vivjoa, which is an alternative to the fluconazole family that doesn't have the same toxicity and is currently on the market for chronic yeast infection and hopefully some other things in the future when we can get some more clinical trials done.Holden Thorp (00:06:35):And I've hung around biotech startups and drug development, so it is part of the business that I knew. I think the pandemic really gave us an opening because Valda Vinson, who's now the Executive Editor and runs all of life sciences for us and policies for the journal, she was so well known in structural biology that most of the first important structures in Covid, including the spike protein, all came to us. I mean, I remember crystal clear February of 2020, she came in my office and she said, I got the structure of the spike protein. And I said, great, what's the spike protein? Turned out later became the most famous protein in the world, at least temporarily. Insulin may be back to being the most famous protein now, but spike protein was up there. And then that kind of cascaded into all the main protease and many of the structures that we got.Holden Thorp (00:07:45):And we seized on that for sure, to kind of broaden our focus. We had the Regeneron antibodies, we had the Paxlovid paper, and all of that kind of opened doors for us. And we've also, now we have two clinical editors at Science, Priscilla Kelly and Yevgeniya Nusinovich, and then the Insights section, somebody that you work with closely, Gemma Alderton, she is very fluent in clinical matters. And then of course we've had Science Translational Medicine and we seek continue to strengthen that. Science Immunology was very much boosted by Covid and actually Science Immunology is now, I think probably if you care about impact factors, the second highest specialized immunology journal after Immunity. I've put some emphasis on it for sure, but I think the pandemic also really helped us. As far as me speaking out, a lot of people maybe don't remember, but Don Kennedy, who was the editor in the early 2000s who had been the Stanford president, he was similarly outspoken.Confronting ControversiesHolden Thorp (00:09:15):It's funny, sometimes people who disagree with me say, well, Don Kennedy would never say anything like that. And then I can dig up something that Don Kennedy said that's just as aggressive as what I might've said. But you're right, Bruce Alberts was very focused on education, and each one of us has had our own different way of doing things. When Alan Leshner hired me and Sudip Parikh reinforced this when he came on, I mean, he wanted me to liven up the editorial page. He explicitly told me to do that. I may have done more of it than he was expecting, but Alan and Sudip both still remain very supportive of that. I couldn't do what I do without them and also couldn't do it without Lisa Chong, who makes all my words sound so much better than they are when I start. And yeah, it kind of fed on itself.Holden Thorp (00:10:21):It started with the pandemic. I think there was an inflection when Trump first said that Covid was just the flu, and when he said some really ridiculous things about the vaccine, and that's where it started. I guess my philosophy was I was thinking about people who, they've got a spouse at home whose job might be disrupted. They got children they've got who are out of school, and somehow they managed to get themselves to the lab to work on our vaccine or some other aspect of the pandemic to try to help the world. What would those people want their journal to say when they came home and turned the news on and saw all these politicians saying all this ridiculous stuff? That was really the sort of mantra that I had in my head, and that kind of drove it. And now I think we've sort of established the fact that it's okay to comment on things that are going on in the world. We're editorially independent, Sudip and the AAAS board, treat us as being editorially independent. I don't take that for granted and it's a privilege to, as I sometimes tell people, my apartment's four blocks from the White House, sometimes I'm over there typing things that they don't like. And that tradition is still alive in this country, at least for the time being, and I try to make the most of it.Eric Topol (00:12:11):Well, and especially as you already touched on Holden, when there's a time when the intersection of politics and science really came to a head and still we're dealing with that, and that's why it's been so essential to get your views as the leader of such an important journal that is publishing some of the leading science in the world on a weekly basis. Now, one of the things I do want to get into this other track that you also alluded to. You went from a chemist, and you eventually rose to Dean and chancellor of University of North Carolina (UNC) and also the provost of Washington University, two of our best institutions academically in the country. I would imagine your parents who were both UNC grads would've been especially proud of you being the chancellor.Holden Thorp (00:13:05):It's true. Yeah. Unfortunately, my father wasn't there to see it, but my mother, as I always tell people, my mother very much enjoyed being the queen mother of her alma mater.On Stanford University's President ResignationEric Topol (00:13:16):Yeah, I would think so, oh my goodness. That gives you another perspective that's unique having been in the senior management of two really prestigious institutions, and this past year a lot has been going on in higher education, and you have again come to the fore about that. Let's just first discuss the Stanford debacle, the president there. Could you kind of give us synopsis, you did some really important writing about that, and what are your thoughts looking back on the student who happens to be Peter Baker's and Susan's son, two incredible journalists at the New York Times and New Yorker, who broke the story at the Stanford Daily as a student, and then it led to eventually the President's resignation. So, what were your thoughts about that?Holden Thorp (00:14:16):Yeah, so it's a complicated and sad story in some ways, but it's also fascinating and very instructive. Two of the papers were in Science, two of the three main ones, the other one was in Cell. And we had made an error along the way because Marc had sent a correction in which for some reason never got posted. We searched every email server we had everything we had trying to find exactly what happened, but we think we have a website run by humans and there was something that happened when the corrections were transmitted into our operations group, and they didn't end up on the website. So, one of the things I had to do was to say repeatedly to every reporter who wanted to ask me, including some Pulitzer Prize winners, that we had looked everywhere and couldn't find any reason why somebody would've intentionally stopped those corrections from posting.Holden Thorp (00:15:36):And one thing about it was I didn't want, Marc had enough problems, he didn't need to be blamed for the fact that we botched that. So I think people were maybe impressed that we just came out and admitted we made a mistake, but that's really what this area needs. And those things happened before I became the editor in chief, but I was satisfied that where that error happened was done by people who had no idea who Marc Tessier-Lavigne even was, but because of all that, and because we had to decide what to do with these papers, I talked to him extensively at the beginning of this, maybe as much as anybody, now that I look back on it. And I think that for him, the error that happened is very common one. You have a PI with a big lab.Holden Thorp (00:16:33):There are many, many incentives for his coworkers and yours to want to get high profile publications. And what we see is mostly at the end when you kind of know what's happening, some corners get cut doing all the controls and all of the last things that have to be done to go into the paper. And someone in his lab did that, and he didn't notice when the jails were sent in. The committee that investigated it later found something that I was certain at the beginning was going to be true, which is he didn't have any direct involvement in and making the problematic images or know that they were there. Every time we see one of these, that's almost always the story.Holden Thorp (00:17:32):And if he hadn't been the president of Stanford, he probably would've, I mean, a couple of the papers that were attracted might even could have been just big corrections. That's another topic we can talk about in terms of whether that's the right thing to do but because he was the president of Stanford, it triggered all these things at the university, which made the story much, much more complicated. And it is similar to what we see in a lot of these, that it's the institution that does the most to make these things bigger than they need to be. And in this case, the first thing was that young Theo Baker who I've talked on the phone extensively with, and I just had a long lunch with him in Palo Alto a couple weeks ago, it's the first time we ever met in person. He's finishing up his book, which has been optioned for a movie, and I've told him that I want Mark Hamill to play me in the movie because I don't know if you saw this last thing he did, Fall of the House of Usher but he was a very funny curmudgeonly.Holden Thorp (00:18:46):And so, I think he would be a lot like me dealing with Theo, but Theo did great work. Did everything that Theo write add up precisely. I mean, he was teaching himself a lot of this biochemistry as he went along, so you could always find little holes in it, but the general strokes of what he had were correct. And in my opinion, and Marc would've been better served by talking to Theo and answering his questions or talking to other reporters who are covering this and there are many excellent ones. This is something I learned the hard way when I was at North Carolina. It's always better for the President to just face the music and answer the questions instead of doing what they did, which is stand up this long and complicated investigation. And when the institutions do these long investigations, the outcome is always unsatisfying for everybody because the investigation, it found precisely what I think anybody who understands our world would've expected that Marc didn't know about the fraud directly, but that he could have done more to create a culture in his laboratory where these things were picked up, whether that's making his lab smaller or him having fewer other things to do, or precisely what it is, people could speculate.Managing a Crisis at a UniversityHolden Thorp (00:20:37):But of course, that's what always happens in these. So the report produced exactly what any reporter who's covered this their whole lives would've expected it to produce, but the people who don't know the intimate details of how this works, were not satisfied by that. And he ended up having to step down and we'll never know what would've happened if instead of doing all of that, he just said, wow, I really screwed this up. I'm responsible for the fact that these images are in here and I'm going to do everything I can to straighten it out. I'd be happy to take your questions. That's always what I encourage people to do because I was in a similar situation at North Carolina with a scandal involved in athletics and an academic department, and we did umpteen investigations instead of me just saying, hey, everybody, we cheated for 30 years. It started when I was in middle school, but I'm still going to try to clean it up and I'll be happy to answer your questions. And instead, we get lawyers and PR people and all these carefully worded statements, and it's all prolonged. And we see that in every research integrity matter we deal with and there are a lot of other things in higher education that are being weighed down by all of that right now.Eric Topol (00:22:06):Yeah. One of the things that is typical when a university faces a crisis, and we're going to get into a couple others in a moment, is that they get a PR firm, and the PR firm says, just say you're going to do an investigation because that'll just pull it out of the news, take it out of the news. It doesn't work that way. And what's amazing is that the universities pay a lot of money to these PR companies for crisis management. And being forthright may indeed be the answer, but that doesn't happen as best as we can see. I think you're suggesting a new path that might be not just relevant, but the way to get this on the right course quickly.Holden Thorp (00:22:58):Just on that, there's a person in that PR space who I really like. There are a few of them that are really good, and he's the person who helped me the most. And he used to refer doing the investigation as putting it on the credit card.Eric Topol (00:23:16):Yeah. Yeah, exactly.Holden Thorp (00:23:17):Okay, because you still have to pay the credit card bill after you charge something.Eric Topol (00:23:25):Yeah, better to write a check.Holden Thorp (00:23:27):It's better to write a check. Yes, because that 18% interest can add up pretty quickly.Resignations of the Presidents at Harvard and PennEric Topol (00:23:32):I like that metaphor entirely appropriate. That's a good one. Now, in the midst of all this, there's been two other leading institutions besides Stanford where the president resigned for different reasons, at least in part one was at Harvard and one at Penn. And this is just a crisis in our top universities in the country. I mean three of the very top universities. So, could you comment about the differences at Harvard and Penn related to what we just discussed at Stanford?Holden Thorp (00:24:09):Yeah, so I don't know Claudine Gay, but I've exchanged emails with her, and I do know Liz Magill and I know Sally Kornbluth even better. Our kids went to middle school together because she was at Duke. And I think Sally is in good shape, and she did a little bit better in the hearings because I think she was a little more forthcoming than Liz and Dr. Gay were but I think also Liz was in a pretty weakened state already when she went in there. And I think that what happened that day, and it was a devastating day for higher education. I cleared my calendar, and I watched the whole thing and I couldn't sleep that night. And it was, I thought, oh my goodness, my way of making a living has just taken a death blow. I just felt so much compassion for the three of them, two of whom I knew, one of whom I could imagine having been through similar things myself.Holden Thorp (00:25:20):And I think what my take on the whole thing about free speech and the war and all this stuff is that higher education has got a problem, which is that we have promised to deliver a product that we can't really deliver, and that is to provide individualized experiences for students. So, I'm back on the faculty now at GW. I have 16 people in my class, I know every single one of them. I was teaching during the fall, last fall. I teach on Monday nights, which Yom Kippur was on a Monday night, which was before October 7th. And so, I knew precisely how many Jewish kids I had in my class because they had to make up class for that Monday night.Holden Thorp (00:26:18):I was basically able to talk to each one of them and make sure. And then GW is a very liberal university, so I had a whole bunch that were all the way on the other side also. I was just able to talk to each of them and make sure they had what they needed from the university. But the institutions don't really have luxury. They don't have somebody who's been doing this for 35 years teaching 16 people who can make sure they're getting what they need, but they write letters to all their students saying, you're going to join a diverse student body where we're going to give you a chance to express yourself and explore everything, but there's too many of them to actually deliver that. And none of them want to say that out loud. And so, what happens in a situation like this?Holden Thorp (00:27:19):And everybody says, well, don't send out the statements, don't send out the statements, but how else are you going to communicate with all those people? I mean, because the truth is education is a hands-on individualized deal. And so, the students who are experiencing antisemitism at Harvard or Penn or anywhere else, were feeling distress. And the university wasn't doing what they promised and attending to that, and similarly to the students who wanted to express themselves in the other direction. And so, what really needs to happen is that universities need to put more emphasis on what goes on in the classroom so that these students are getting the attention that they've been promised. But universities are trying to do a lot of research and you're at a place that's got a little simpler mission but some of these big complicated ones are doing urban development and they're trying to win athletics competitions, and they're running hotels and fire departments and police departments, and it's really hard to do all and multi, multi-billion dollar investment vehicles.Holden Thorp (00:28:47):It's really hard to do all that and keep the welfare of a bunch of teenagers up at the top of the list. And so, I think really what we need around this topic in general is a reckoning about this very point. Now as far as how to gotten through the hearing a little better, I mean what they said was technically correct, no question about that. But where they struggled was in saying things that would cause them to admit that they had failed at doing what they promised for the people who are feeling distressed. And again, that's kind of my mantra on all these things, whether it's student affairs or research integrity or anything else, the universities have made massive commitments to do probably more things than they can, and rather than fessing up to that, they just bury the whole thing in legalistic bureaucracy, and it's time for us to cut through a lot of that stuff.Eric Topol (00:30:09):I couldn't agree more on that.Holden Thorp (00:30:10):And in Claudine's case, I think the plagiarism thing, I wrote a piece in the Chronicle that just kind of tried to remind people that the kinds of plagiarism that she was punished for, in my opinion, too much of a punishment is stuff that we routinely pick up now with authenticate and other tools in scholarly publishing, and people just get a report that says, hey, maybe you want to reward this, and that's it. If it doesn't change the academic content of the paper, we hardly ever even pay attention to that. She was being subjected to a modern tool that didn't exist when she wrote the stuff that she wrote. And it's same thing with image analysis, right? When Marc Tessier-Lavigne made his papers, Elisabeth Bik wasn't studying images, and we didn't have proof fig and image twin to pick these things up, so we're taking today's tools and applying them to something that's 20 years old that was produced when those tools didn't exist. You can debate whether that matters or not, but in my opinion it does.Generative A.I. and Publishing ScienceEric Topol (00:31:31):Yeah, that's bringing us to the next topic I wanted to get into you with, which is AI. You've already mentioned about the AI detection of image, which we used to rely on Elisabeth as a human to do that, and now it can be done through AI.Holden Thorp (00:31:51):Well, it doesn't get everything, so I keep telling Elisabeth she doesn't have to worry about being put out of business.Eric Topol (00:31:58):But then there's also, as you said about text detection, and then there's also, as you've written in Science, the overall submission of papers where a GPT may have had significant input to the writing, not just to check the spelling or check minor things. And so, I want to get your views because this is a moving target of course. I mean, it's just the capabilities of AI have just been outpacing, I think a lot of expectations. Where do you see the intersection of AI and Science publishing now? Because as you said, it changes the ground rules for picking up even minor unintended errors or self-plagiarism or whatever, and now it changes the whole landscape considerably.Holden Thorp (00:32:54):Yeah. So, I think you said the most important thing, which is that it's a moving target, and you've been writing about this for medicine for longer than just about anybody, so you've been watching that moving target. We started off with a very restrictive stance, and the reason we did that was because we knew it would keep moving. And so, we wanted to start from the most restrictive possible place and then sort of titrate in the things that we allowed because we didn't want to go through the same thing we went through with Photoshop when it first came along. Like all these altered images that we keep talking about by far the most papers that surface are from the period between when Photoshop became a tool and when we finally had sort of a consensus as a community in terms of what was okay and what wasn't okay to do with your gels when you process the images.Holden Thorp (00:33:55):And we didn't want the same thing with words where we allowed people to use ChatGPT to write, and then a few years later decided, oh, this thing wasn't permissible, and then we have to go back and re-litigate all those papers. We didn't want to do that again. So, we started off with a pretty restrictive stance, which we've loosened once and we'll probably loosen more as we see how things evolve. What we keep looking for is for entities that don't have a financial interest to issue guidelines, so if it's another journal, especially a commercial journal that makes money on the papers, well, you can imagine that these tools are going to give us even more papers. And for a lot of these entities that charge by the paper, they have a financial incentive for people to use ChatGPT to write papers. We look for societies and coalitions of academics who have come together and said these things are okay.Holden Thorp (00:35:04):And the first one of those was when we decided that it was okay, for example, if you are not an English speaker natively to have ChatGPT work on your pros. Now there are lots of people who disagree about that ChatGPT is good at that. That's a separate matter, but we felt we got to a point, I forgot when it was a couple months ago, where we could amend our policies and say that we were going to be more tolerant of text that had been done by ChatGPT. As long as the people who signed the author forms realize that if it makes one of these hallucinating errors that it makes and it gets into the paper that's on them, whether that actually saves you time or not, I don't know.Holden Thorp (00:36:03):I also have my doubts about that, but that's kind of where we're going. We're watching these things as they go. We're still very restrictive on images and there was this debacle in this Frontiers paper a couple of weeks ago with a ridiculous image that got through. So right now, we're still not allowing illustrations that were generated by the visual counterparts of ChatGPT. Will we loosen that in the future? Maybe, as things evolve, so when we did our first amendment, some of the reporters, they're just doing their jobs saying, well, you can't make your mind up about this. And I'm like, no, you don't want us to make up our mind once and for all. And by the way, science is something that changes over time also. So, we're watching this develop and we expect everybody jokes about how we spend too much time talking about this, but I think everybody's gotten to the point now where they're realizing we're going to talk about it for years to come.Eric Topol (00:37:17):Oh my goodness, yes because we're talking about truth versus fake and this is big stuff. I mean, it affects whether it's the elections, whether it's every sector of our lives are affected by this. And obviously publishing in the leading peer review journal, it couldn't be more important as to get this right and to adjust, as you said, as more evidence, performance and other issues are addressed systematically. That does get me to self-correcting science, something else you've written about, which is kind of self-correcting as to how we will understand the use of large language models and generative AI. But this, you get into science in many different ways, whether it's through the celebrity idea, how it has to adapt and correct that there's a miscue from the public about when evolves and it's actually that science. So maybe you could kind of give us your perspective about you are continuing to reassess what is science as we'll get into more about that in a moment. Where are you at right now on that?Holden Thorp (00:38:40):Yeah, so my general sort of shtick about science is to remind people that it's done by human beings. Human beings who have all different kinds of different brains who come from different backgrounds, who have all the human foibles that you see in any other profession. And I think that unfortunately a lot of, and we brought some of this on ourselves, we've kind of taken on an air of infallibility from time to time or as having the final answer when, if you go back just to the simplest Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn early writings in the philosophy of science, it's crystal clear that science is something that evolves. It's something done by sometimes thousands or even hundreds of thousands of millions of people depending on the topic. And it's not the contributions of any individual person hardly ever.Holden Thorp (00:39:54):But yet we continue to give Nobel prizes and hold up various individual scientific figures as being representative. They're usually representative of many, many people. And it's a process that continues to change. And as always point out, if you want to get a paper in science, it's not good to say, hey, here's something everybody thought and we tested it and it's still correct. That's usually not a good way to get a science paper. The right thing to do is to say, hey, the W boson might weigh more than we expected it to, or it turns out that evolution occurs in ways that we didn't expect, or that's how you get a science paper and that's how you get on the cover of Science. Those are the things that we look for, things that change the way people think about science. And so that's what we're all actively looking for, but yet we sometimes portray to the public that we always have everything completely figured out, and the journalists sometimes don't help us because they like to write crisp stories that people can get something out of. And we like to go on TV and say, hey, I got the answer.Holden Thorp (00:41:23):Don't wear a mask. Do wear a mask. This is how much the temperature is going to go up next year. Oh, we refined our, and it turns out it's another 10th of a degree this way or that way. I mean, that's what makes what we do interesting and embedded in that is also human error, right? Because we make errors in interpretation. We might see a set of data that we think mean one thing, but then somebody else will do something that helps us interpret it another way. In my opinion, that's certainly not misconduct. We hardly ever publish corrections or retractions over interpretation. We just publish more papers about that unless it's some very egregious thing. And then we also have greed and ambition and ego and lots of other things that cause people to make intentional errors that get most of the attention. And we have errors that are unintentional, but still may relate to fundamental data in the paper.Holden Thorp (00:42:36):So when you put all this together, the answer isn't to try to catch everything because there's no way in the world we're going to catch everything and we wouldn't want to, even if we could for some of it, because as John Maddox, who ran my competitor journal for many years in a brilliant way at Nature, someone once asked him how many papers in Nature were wrong? And he said, all of them, because all of them are going to be replaced by new information. And so, what we'd be better off trying to convince the public that this is how science works, which is much harder than just going to them with facts. I mean, that takes a lot of work and doing a better job of telling each other that it's okay when we have to change the record because the biggest thing that erodes trust in science is not the fact that we make mistakes, is that when it turns into a drama over whether we are going to correct the record or not, that's what all these, the Stanford case is probably the biggest in people's minds. But if you look at, we've had this behavioral economic stuff at Harvard, I have this superconductivity at Rochester, Dana Farber's having a big event right now. All of these things don't have to be this dramatic if we would do a better job of collaborating with each other on maintaining an accurate scientific record rather than letting ambition and greed and ego get in the way of all of it.Who Is A Scientist?Eric Topol (00:44:21):Well, you got some important threads in there. The one thing I just would also comment on is my favorite thing in Science is challenging dogma because there's so much dogma, and that's obviously part of what you were getting into and many other aspects as well. But that's the story of Science, that nothing stands. If it does, then you're not doing a good job of really interrogating and following up on whatever is accepted at any particular moment in time. But your writings, whether it's in Science and editorials or science forever, your Substack, which are always insightful but I think one of the most recent ones was about, who is a scientist? And I really love that one because I'll let you explain. There are some people who have a very narrow view and others who see it quite differently. And maybe you could summarize it.Holden Thorp (00:45:23):Well, I had the privilege to moderate a panel at the AAAS meeting that included Keith Yamamoto, who was our outgoing president, Willie May, who was our incoming president, Peggy Hamburg, who ran the FDA and many, many other things. Kaye Husbands Fealing who was a social scientist, and Michael Crow, who was the president of Arizona State. These are all extraordinary people. And I just asked him a simple question, so who was the scientist? Because I think one thing that I see in my work, and you probably see in the communication work and writing that you do, that not all of our colleagues who work in the laboratory think that the rest of this stuff is science.Holden Thorp (00:46:17):And the place that breaks my heart the most is when somebody says, one of our professional editors isn't qualified to reject their paper because they don't have their own lab. Alright, well you've interacted with a lot of our editors, they read more papers than either one of us. They know more about what's going on in these papers than anybody. They are absolute scholars in every sense of the word and if someone thinks they're not scientists, I don't know who a scientist is. And so, then you can extend that to science communicators. I mean, those are obviously the problems we've been talking about, the people we need the most great teachers. If someone's a great science teacher and they have a PhD and they worked in lab and they're teaching at a university, are they still a scientist even if they don't have a lab anymore?Holden Thorp (00:47:11):So in my opinion, an expansive definition of this is the best because we want all these people to be contributing. In fact, many of the problems we have aren't because we're not good in the laboratory. We seem to be able to do a good job generating that. It's more about all these other pieces that we're not nearly as good at. And part of what we need to do is value the people who are good at those things, so I pose this to the panel, and I hope people go on and watch the video. It is worth watching. Keith Yamamoto was in the group that said, it's only if you're doing and planning research that you're a scientist. He knew he was going to be outnumbered before we went out there. We talked about that. I said, Keith, you're my boss. If you don't want me to ask that question, I won't. But to his credit, he wanted to talk about this and then Michael Crow was probably the furthest on the other side who said, what makes humans different from other species is that we're all scientists. We all seek to explain things. So somewhere in the middle and the others were kind of scattered around the middle, although I would say closer to Michael than they were to Keith.Holden Thorp (00:48:33):But I think this is important for us to work out because we want everybody who contributes to the scientific enterprise to feel valued. And if they would feel more valued if we called them scientists, that suits me but it doesn't suit all of our academic colleagues apparently.Eric Topol (00:48:54):Well, I mean, I think just to weigh in a bit on that, I'm a big proponent of citizen scientists, and we've seen how it has transformed projects like folded for structural biology and so many things, All of Us program that's ongoing right now to try to get a million participants, at least half of whom are underrepresented to be citizen scientists learning about themselves through their genome and other layers of data. And that I think may help us to fight the misinformation, disinformation, the people that do their own research with a purpose that can be sometimes nefarious. The last type of topic I wanted to get to with you was the University of Florida and the state of Florida and the Surgeon General there. And again, we are kind of circling back to a few things that we've discussed today about higher education institutions as well as politics and I wonder if we get some comments about that scenario.What's Happening in Florida?Holden Thorp (00:49:59):Yeah. Well, I'm coming to you from Orlando, Florida where I have a home that I've had ever since I moved to a cold climate, and I spent the whole pandemic down here. I observed a lot of things going on in the state of Florida firsthand. And I think in a way it's two different worlds because Florida does make a massive investment in higher education more than many other states and that has really not changed that much under Governor DeSantis despite his performative views that seem to be to the contrary. And so, I think it's important to acknowledge that Florida State and Florida and UCF and USF, these are excellent places and many of them have thrived in terms of their budgets even in this weird climate, but the political performance is very much in the other direction. This is where the Stop WOKE Act happened. This is where, again, I live in Orlando. This is a company town that Ron DeSantis decided to take on the Walt Disney Corporation is the second biggest city in Orlando, and it's a company town, and he took on the employer.Holden Thorp (00:51:32):It doesn't make a whole lot of political sense, but I think it was all part of his national political ambitions. And down at the base of this was this all strange anti-vax stuff. Now I got my first vaccines down here. I went to public places that were organized by the Army Corps of Engineers that were at public properties. It was at a community college here in Orlando, was extremely well organized. I had no problem. I was there 10 minutes, got my vaccines. It was extremely well organized but at the same time, the guys on TV saying the vaccine's not any good. And he hires this person, Joseph Ladapo, to be his Surgeon General, who I think we would both say is an anti-vaxxer. I mean he just recently said that you didn't need to get a measles vaccine and then in the last couple of days said, if you're unvaccinated and you have measles, you don't have to quarantine for 21 days. Now really would be disastrous if measles came back. You know a lot more about that than I do but I'm a generation that had a measles vaccine and never worried about measles.Holden Thorp (00:52:59):So the part of it that I worry about the most is that this person, the Surgeon General, also has a faculty appointment at the University of Florida. And you can see how he got it because his academic resume has been circulated as a result of all of Florida's public records laws and he has a very strong, credible resume that would probably cause him to get tenure at a lot of places. The medical faculty at Florida have tried to assert themselves and say, we really need to distance ourselves from him, but the administration at the University of Florida has not really engaged them. Now, I did ask them last week about the measles thing. I was going to write about it again, and I wrote to them and I said, if you guys aren't going to say anything about what he is saying about the measles, then I'm going to have another editorial.Holden Thorp (00:54:05):And they sent me a statement, which I posted that you probably saw that they still didn't condemn him personally, but they did say that measles vaccination was very important, and it was a fairly direct statement. I don't know if that will portend more stronger words from the University of Florida. Maybe now that their president is somebody who's close to the governor, they'll feel a little more comfortable saying things like that. But I think the bigger issue for all of us is when we have academic colleagues who say things that we know are scientifically invalid, and this always gets to the whole free speech thing, but in my opinion, free speech, it is within free speech to say, yes, all these things about vaccines are true, but I still don't think people should be compelled to get vaccinated. That's an opinion. That's fine. But what's not an opinion is to say that vaccines are unsafe if they've been tested over and over again and proven to be effective.Academic FreedomHolden Thorp (00:55:24):That's not an opinion. And I personally don't think that that deserves certainly to be weighted equally with the totality of medical evidence. I think that it's within bounds for academic colleagues and even institutions to call out their colleagues who are not expressing an opinion, but are challenging scientific facts without doing experiments and submitting papers and having lots of people look at it and doing all the stuff that we require in order to change scientific consensus. And this happens in climate change in a very parallel way. I mean, it's an opinion to say the climate is changing, humans are causing it, but I still don't think we should have government regulations about carbon. I think we should wait for the private sector to solve it, or I don't think it's going to have as bad of an effect as people say. Those are policy debates that you can have.Holden Thorp (00:56:28):But alleging that climate scientists are falsifying their projection somehow when they're not is in my opinion, not covered by free speech. And I think the best evidence we had of this is this recent verdict with Michael Mann, where it was the people who were criticizing him were found to be defamatory when they said that he committed research fraud. They could say he's exaggerating the threat. They could say they could dislike his style. He does have a very bombastic style. They can say all kinds of things about their opinions about him personally but if you accuse him of committing research fraud, and the paper that was in question was one of the most highly litigated papers of all time. It's been investigated more times than you can count. That's not something that's protected by free speech because it's defamatory to say that, and the jury found that. I think we have a lot of work to do to get within our own world, our colleagues, to get their arms around these two forms of debate.Eric Topol (00:57:51):Right. Well, I think this is, again, another really important point you're making during the pandemic parallel to the Michael Mann climate change case is that leading universities, as we recently reviewed in a podcast with Jonathan Howard, who wrote a book about this leading universities like Stanford, UCSF, Johns Hopkins and many others, didn't come out about the people that were doing things, saying things that were truly potential public harm. Not like you're saying, expressing an opinion with the truth, but rather negating evidence that was important to keep people protected from Covid. This is a problem which is thematic in our discussion I think Holden, is that universities have to get with it. They have to be able to help not put things on the credit card, be very transparent, direct quick respond, and not hide behind worried about social media or journalists or whatever else. This has been an incredible discussion, Holden, I got into even more than I thought we would.Eric Topol (00:59:15):You're a phenom to defend the whole science landscape that is challenging right now. I think you would agree for many reasons that we've discussed, and it affects education in a very dramatic, serious way. I want to thank you all that you're doing at Science with your team there to lead the charge and stand up for things and not being afraid to stimulate some controversies here and there. It's good for the field. And so, I hope I didn't miss anything and this exhaustive, this is the longest podcast I've done on Ground Truths, I want you to know that.Holden Thorp (00:59:59):Well, I'm flattered by that because you've had some great people on, that's for sure. And thank you for all you're doing, not just in science, but to spread the word about all these things and bring people together. It means a lot to all of us.Eric Topol (01:00:15):Oh, much appreciated. And we'll convene again soon to discuss so many dimensions of what we just have been reviewing and new ones to come. Thanks very much.Holden Thorp (01:00:25):Okay. Always good talking to you.*******************************************************Thanks for listening or reading this episode of GT.Please share if you found this podcast informative.Ground Truths is open-access. All content (newsletters and podcasts) is free.All proceeds from voluntary paid subscriptions support Scripps Research and have provided major funding for our summer internship program. Get full access to Ground Truths at erictopol.substack.com/subscribe
In the tapestry of human experience, grief and addiction often emerge as formidable challenges, casting shadows on our journey. However, stories of resiliency, change, and purpose can be found within these shadows. We learn things that shed light on the way forward and hold out the possibility of hope, understanding, and redemption as we delve into the interwoven stories of those who have walked these difficult paths. In today's insightful conversation, Cindy Watson delves deep with Cindy Girman as they talk about Negotiating Past Grief and Addiction to Find Purpose, a trailblazer in the realm of biostatistics and epidemiology. As the founder of a renowned consulting firm, Cindy Girman's expertise lies in designing and analyzing clinical trials and observational studies to unravel the intricacies of medicines. Holding a distinguished Doctor of Public Health from the University of North Carolina (UNC) and being a notable fellow of the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology, she brings a wealth of knowledge to the table. Beyond her professional accomplishments, Cindy, alongside her husband, is fervently pioneering non-pharmacological technology for treating substance use disorders. Join us as they navigate the journey of Negotiating Past Grief and Addiction to Find Purpose. In this episode, you will learn: How to negotiate past grief. Learn how to negotiate past and live with your grief. How to talk openly about grief. Finding the healthier ways to use our fear and ways to use that fear to fuel us not to be afraid of failure. How does grief affect the ability of people to be able to negotiate? Tips about how to negotiate and interact more effectively with people who are grieving? Tips on how to negotiate with a loved one with addiction issues. The importance of finding purpose, how to do it. Learn more about Cindy Girman: Social: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cindy.girman IG: @avoicefromheaven or Cindy Girman X(Twitter): @fromheaven23 LinkedIn: WingsofPeacePress or Cynthia J Girman, DrPH, FISPE Website: www.wingsofpeacepress.com If you're looking to up-level your negotiation skills, I have everything from online to group to my signature one-on-one mastermind & VIP experiences available to help you better leverage your innate power to get more of what you want and deserve in life. Check out our website at www.artofFeminineNegotiation.com if that sounds interesting to you. Get Cindy's book here: Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Art-Feminine-Negotiation-Boardroom-Bedroom-ebook/dp/B0B8KPCYZP?inf_contact_key=94d07c699eea186d2adfbddfef6fb9e2&inf_contact_key=013613337189d4d12be8d2bca3c26821680f8914173f9191b1c0223e68310bb1 EBook https://www.amazon.com/Art-Feminine-Negotiation-Boardroom-Bedroom-ebook/dp/B0B8KPCYZP?inf_contact_key=94d07c699eea186d2adfbddfef6fb9e2&inf_contact_key=013613337189d4d12be8d2bca3c26821680f8914173f9191b1c0223e68310bb1 Barnes and Noble https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-art-of-feminine-negotiation-cindy-watson/1141499614?ean=9781631959776 CONNECT WITH CINDY: Website: www.womenonpurpose.ca Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/womenonpurposecommunity/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/womenonpurposecoaching/ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/thecindywatson Show: https://www.womenonpurpose.ca/media/podcast-2/ X(Twitter): https://twitter.com/womenonpurpose1 YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@hersuasion Email: cindy@womenonpurpose.ca
* Report: Major U.S. airline tells employees to take this racist action - Must capitalize 'black' and 'brown' but not 'white' - Bob Unruh. * A newly published report confirms how Delta Air Lines has chosen to follow a racist ideology, ordering workers, in all communications, to capitalize "black" and "brown" but to leave "white" lower-case. * Stunningly, the report explains the politicized language agenda follows the social agenda of the Associated Press, or AP, the legacy wire service that has delivered similar instructions to its employees. * The Gateway Pundit obtained from a source a copy of the Delta memo. * Is Delta Air Lines training its employees to be racist with this policy? * More than half of black Americans approve of the Supreme Court striking down race-based admissions, according to a Tuesday Gallup poll. The Supreme Court ruled in June that race-based admissions in two separate cases at Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC) violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. * Sam Promotes: 'Operation Reach Out'! * IMPORTANT NOTE TO WND READERS: For America's ruling elites, nothing is more precious, wonderful and life-giving to their great cause than the Jan. 6, 2021 "insurrection" at the U.S. Capitol. It's irrelevant that the events didn't come remotely close to constituting an actual "insurrection," or that both police and over 200 undercover FBI assets provoked the riot – which Tucker Carlson calls a "set-up."
Cindy Girman is the founder of a consulting firm that works with pharmaceutical companies to generate more efficient and meaningful evidence on how medicines work. She holds a Doctor of Public Health in biostatistics with an emphasis on epidemiology from the University of North Carolina (UNC) and is a fellow of the International Society of Pharmacoepidemiology. Cindy and her husband are collaborating with researchers at UNC on non-pharmacological transcranial alternating current stimulation as a treatment for substance use disorder, a keen interest of theirs. In episode 413 of the Fraternity Foodie Podcast, we find out why Dr. Girman chose UNC Chapel Hill for her educational pursuits, how her son Alec died of kratom toxicity, what is kratom and how are we educating the public about the dangers of using it, how her research is going on non-pharmacological transcranial alternating current stimulation as a treatment for substance use disorder, how she started receiving direct communication from her son Alec after his death, what happens when we die, how we spend our time on the other side, and what is our purpose as humans living a physical life on earth. Enjoy!
Dr. Larry J. Moray, a distinguished figure in orthodontics and the President/Founder of MyOrthodontist, features in today's episode. Dr. Larry's journey into dentistry began with a unique background in neurobiology, leading him to complete dental training at the University of North Carolina (UNC). His career spans teaching at the VCU/MCV School of Dentistry, managing the hospital dental clinic in Virginia, and culminating in the establishment and growth of MyOrthodontist, which now boasts 14 offices serving communities across North Carolina. Dr. Larry's life philosophy, centered on savoring life's diverse experiences, shines through in his approach to orthodontics, mentoring, and fostering a patient-centric legacy. Join us as we tune in to glean valuable insights from Dr. Larry's wealth of experience and visionary leadership! [03:45] Leading by Example: Dr. Larry's Philosophy in Dentistry and Entrepreneurship [09:36] Cultivating Excellence: Mentoring and Clinical Collaboration [17:02] Building Bridges: Bilingual Dentistry and Team Empowerment [25:15] Empowering Excellence: Doctor Collaboration and Leadership in Dentistry [30:46] Navigating the Modern Dental Landscape: Challenges, Culture, and the Future of Dentistry [36:33] Retirement Redefined: Crafting a Lifestyle of Freedom, Family, and Lasting Legacy Resources: Connect with Dr. Larry: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/larry-j-moray Website: myorthodontistnc.com/
On June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against race-based admissions at college campuses nationwide after hearing companion cases by Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) that challenged admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC). SFFA overturned the 2003 ruling by a more liberal Supreme Court in the case Grutter v. Bollinger, which affirmed that a student's race could be used as one of multiple factors in admissions decisions at the University of Michigan. Affirmative action was rejected by the conservative majority on the bench, which agreed that UNC's policies violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and that Harvard's affirmative action plan discriminates against Asian American students, a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But did it really change the way campus admissions will operate? In their forthcoming paper in the Texas Law Review, “The Goose and the Gander: How Conservative Precedents Will Save Campus Affirmative Action,” Professor Guha Krishnamurthi of the University of Maryland Carey Law School contends (along with his co-author Peter Salib) that though affirmative action is legally dead, race will still figure into holistic admissions procedures-- just not as a check-box item. In this episode of Discovery, we speak with Prof. Krishnamurthi about the previous state of play in race-based admissions and his opinion that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against campus affirmative action has no practical effect on the way schools operate. He argues that due to the Supreme Court's decades-old rulings that statistical proof cannot carry a constitutional discrimination claim, universities will only be liable in litigation if they admit that they practice affirmative action, so most schools will pursue diversity by other means, simply by operating in the shadows.
UNC football lost for the second straight week, this time at Georgia Tech, 46-42. Tim Donnelly puts the loss on head coach Mack Brown and the coaching staff for losing to another team they should've beaten, and for having wasted a great opportunity to elevate the program with QB Drake Maye. NC State football got a big win over Clemson football.
On this day, June 30th, in legal history, the 26th Amendment was ratified making the legal voting age a uniform 18.The amendment is straight and to the point, consistent of two sections and holding:Section 1The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.Section 2The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.The history of the reduction of the voting age is inextricably tied to Vietnam. During the 1960s, there was a growing movement across the United States to lower the voting age from 21 to 18. This push was fueled in part by the Vietnam War, as young men between 18 and 21 were being drafted into the military. Advocates argued that if these individuals were old enough to fight, they should be old enough to vote. Facing legislative inaction, supporters of lowering the voting age included a provision in a 1970 bill that extended the Voting Rights Act. However, the Supreme Court ruled in Oregon v. Mitchell that Congress couldn't lower the voting age for state and local elections. To avoid confusion and costs associated with maintaining separate voting rolls, Congress proposed and the states ratified the Twenty-sixth Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18 for all elections.The US Supreme Court has ruled that universities cannot use race as a factor in admissions, overturning decades of precedent. The court's 6-3 decision stated that programs at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina violated the Constitution's equal protection clause. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the court, rejected the argument that these programs were necessary for campus diversity. The ruling is expected to lead to fewer Black and Hispanic students at top universities and require many schools to revise their admissions policies. President Joe Biden disagreed strongly with the decision, claiming it effectively ends affirmative action in college admissions.Rather than recount the stretched logic and thinly masked reasoning behind the majority's overturning decades of precedent, I'll summarize Justice Jackson's dissent. Justice Jackson highlights the existence of significant racial disparities in the health, wealth, and well-being of American citizens, which have been inherited from the past and continue to persist today. She argues that these disparities contradict the fundamental principle of equality and suggests that holistic admissions programs, like the one implemented by the University of North Carolina (UNC), are a necessary solution to address this issue. She joins Justice Sotomayor's opinion that race can be considered in college admissions to ensure racial diversity, emphasizing the universal benefits of such considerations. She counters the contention made by the plaintiff, Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA), that considering race in admissions is unfair, stating that it ignores the historical and ongoing impact of discrimination and the transmission of inequality across generations. Ultimately, Justice Jackson dissents from the majority's decision to restrict the use of race in admissions, arguing that it hampers progress without a legal, historical, logical, or justifiable basis. A particularly salient quote from Justice Jackson's dissent:With let-them-eat-cake obliviousness, today, the majority pulls the ripcord and announces “colorblindness for all” by legal fiat. But deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life. And having so detached itself from this country's actual past and present experiences, the Court has now been lured into interfering with the crucial work that UNC and other institutions of higher learning are doing to solve America's real-world problems.Supreme Court Rejects Use of Race in University Admissions (3)“A Tragedy for Us All”: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's Dissent | The NationIn a 6-3 decision, the US Supreme Court sided with a Christian website designer who argued that her freedom of speech entitled her to create wedding pages exclusively for opposite-sex couples. The court determined that anti-discrimination laws, including the specific Colorado measure involved in the case, must allow for exceptions for businesses engaged in expressive activities. Supreme Court Backs Web Designer Against Same-Sex Marriage (1)The US Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling on the legality of President Joe Biden's plan to cancel $430 billion in student loan debt, which aims to benefit up to 43 million Americans. The conservative justices expressed skepticism during arguments in February, considering legal challenges brought by six conservative-leaning states and two individual borrowers. The ruling has significant implications for the 26 million borrowers who sought relief after Biden announced the plan but faced opposition from lower courts. Biden's plan, fulfilling a campaign promise, seeks to cancel a portion of the $1.6 trillion federal student loan debt, but it faced criticism from Republicans who viewed it as an overreach of presidential authority. The plan would forgive up to $10,000 or $20,000 in federal student debt based on income and grant eligibility. The Biden administration argued that the plan is authorized under the 2003 HEROES Act, which empowers the education secretary to modify student financial assistance during emergencies. The legal challenge faced opposition from a federal judge in Missouri but was found to have proper standing by the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals. Additionally, a federal judge in Texas ruled that the plan exceeded the administration's authority. Public opinion on the debt relief plan is divided along partisan lines, with Democrats generally supportive and Republicans opposed. The Supreme Court's ruling will have significant implications for student loan borrowers and the Biden administration's efforts to address student debt.Supreme Court to decide fate of Biden student loan forgiveness | ReutersOpenAI Inc. is facing another class-action copyright lawsuit that alleges its popular AI chatbot, ChatGPT, is trained on books without obtaining permission from the authors. The lawsuit claims that ChatGPT's machine learning training dataset includes content that OpenAI copied without consent, credit, or compensation. OpenAI and other generative AI companies have been encountering intellectual property and privacy lawsuits, as regulators and Congress attempt to regulate the industry. This latest lawsuit follows a previous class-action suit against OpenAI, accusing the company's AI models of scraping personal information from the internet in violation of privacy laws. It also references a separate copyright suit filed in 2022 regarding OpenAI's AI coding assistant, Copilot. The plaintiffs in the current case, authors Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad, allege that ChatGPT has provided accurate summaries of their books, leading them to believe their works were copied without permission. The lawsuit mentions a 2020 paper from OpenAI, which states that a portion of the training dataset comes from "shadow libraries" like Library Genesis and Sci-Hub, which illegally publish copyrighted works. OpenAI Legal Troubles Mount With Suit Over AI Training on Novels Get full access to Minimum Competence - Daily Legal News Podcast at www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe
The cases concerned admissions at Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC). The court's conservative majority ruled 6-3 against UNC and 6-2 against Harvard. The justices sided with an organisation called Students for Fair Admissions, founded by a conservative activist, Edward Blum. The group argued before the court last October that Harvard's race-conscious admissions policy violated Title VI the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination based on race, colour or national origin. Affirmative action is one of the most contentious issues in US education. It first made its way into policy in the 1960s, and has been defended as a measure to increase diversity.
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Once upon a time, in a parallel universe where college sports took unexpected turns, a seismic shift was about to rock the world of collegiate athletics. In a surprising turn of events, the University of North Carolina (UNC), North Carolina State University (NC State), Florida State University, the University of Miami, the University of Louisville, Duke University, and several other prominent ACC schools were rumored to be considering a move to the Big 12 Conference. It all began when the Big 12 Conference found itself facing numerous challenges. Financial disparities, declining viewership, and a growing sense of stagnation plagued the conference. Seeking a revitalization, the Big 12's commissioner, let's call him Commissioner Smith, set out on a mission to bolster the conference's status and ensure its long-term sustainability. Commissioner Smith reached out to the leadership of various ACC schools, sensing an opportunity for a seismic realignment. Intrigued by the potential benefits, the ACC schools cautiously entertained the idea. Secret meetings were held in undisclosed locations, where university presidents, athletic directors, and influential boosters gathered to discuss the possibilities. Birddogs Today's episode is brought to you by Birddogs. Go to birddogs.com/lockedoncollege and when you enter promo code, LOCKEDONCOLLEGE, they'll throw in a free custom birddogs Yeti-style tumbler with every order. FanDuel This episode is brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook, Official Sportsbook of Locked On. Make Every Moment More. Visit Fanduel.com/LockedOn today to get started Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Once upon a time, in a parallel universe where college sports took unexpected turns, a seismic shift was about to rock the world of collegiate athletics. In a surprising turn of events, the University of North Carolina (UNC), North Carolina State University (NC State), Florida State University, the University of Miami, the University of Louisville, Duke University, and several other prominent ACC schools were rumored to be considering a move to the Big 12 Conference.It all began when the Big 12 Conference found itself facing numerous challenges. Financial disparities, declining viewership, and a growing sense of stagnation plagued the conference. Seeking a revitalization, the Big 12's commissioner, let's call him Commissioner Smith, set out on a mission to bolster the conference's status and ensure its long-term sustainability.Commissioner Smith reached out to the leadership of various ACC schools, sensing an opportunity for a seismic realignment. Intrigued by the potential benefits, the ACC schools cautiously entertained the idea. Secret meetings were held in undisclosed locations, where university presidents, athletic directors, and influential boosters gathered to discuss the possibilities.BirddogsToday's episode is brought to you by Birddogs. Go to birddogs.com/lockedoncollege and when you enter promo code, LOCKEDONCOLLEGE, they'll throw in a free custom birddogs Yeti-style tumbler with every order.FanDuelThis episode is brought to you by FanDuel Sportsbook, Official Sportsbook of Locked On. Make Every Moment More. Visit Fanduel.com/LockedOn today to get started Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Anson Dorrance is the founder and first coach of the UNC women's soccer program and has one of the most successful coaching records in the history of athletics. Under Dorrance's leadership at the University of North Carolina (UNC), the Tar Heels women's soccer teams have won 22 NCAA Women's Soccer Championships over 40 seasons. He has led his team to a 101-game unbeaten streak, and his players have won 20 National Player of the Year awards. If that wasn't enough Anson has won over 1,000 games and brought home 22 ACC Titles. What you'll learn on this episode is: Why that greats are always on a journey of never ending ascension towards excellence. How Anson develops confidence in his players and teams. The foundations for building a winning culture. Why Anson's Competitive Cauldron has been one of the foundations for the programs success. This really is a masterclass in leadership and team building from one of the greatest coaches of all time. Connect with Anson https://ansondorrancesoccer.com/ Anson's Book- https://ansondorrancesoccer.com/book/ Anson's Vision of a Champion Podcast- https://ansondorrancesoccer.com/podcast/ https://www.carolinagirlssoccercamp.com/ I've studied hundreds of the world's must successful people and compiled:13 Insights from the World's Most Successful People - Click Here to get access https://youunleashedcourse.com/ You Unleashed is an online personal development course created by Sean DeLaney after spending years working with and interviewing high achievers.The online course that helps you ‘Unleash your potential'! You Unleashed teaches you the MINDSETS, ROUTINES and BEHAVIORS you need to unleash your potential and discover what you're capable of. You know you're capable of more and want to bring out that untapped potential inside of you. We teach you how. Enroll Today!- Click Here Subscribe to my Momentum Monday Newsletter Connect with us! Whatgotyouthere TikTok YouTube Twitter Instagram
The U.S. Supreme Court held oral arguments in two landmark cases, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard and Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of North Carolina, arising out of the affirmative action policies of two elite university systems, Harvard University and the University of North Carolina (UNC). While these two interrelated cases focus explicitly on university admissions, employers have also been watching these matters closely, wondering whether the outcome of these cases will affect current company policies and practices, especially those focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Listen for insights on how employers should be thinking of these issues.
Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Holden Thorp is Editor-in-Chief of Science family of journals. Before he was provost at Washington University where he holds appointments in both chemistry and medicine. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq8460 It ain't over 'til it's over The Biden administration is sheepishly waving a checkered flag on the pandemic. h ttps://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.adf3072 Remember, do no harm? When the advocacy group America's Frontline Doctors appeared on the steps of the United States Supreme Court in 2020, falsely stating that hydroxychloroquine was a cure for COVID-19, their pronouncement was virally shared by right-wing media and soundly debunked by medical academicians. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg2577 Hard, not easy Science's Breakthrough of the Year is the successful launch and deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo3934 Science needs affirmative action As science struggles to correct systemic racism in the laboratory and throughout academia in the United States, external forces press on, making it even more difficult to achieve equity on all fronts—including among scientists. The latest example is the decision by the US Supreme Court to hear cases brought against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill challenging their right to use race as a factor in undergraduate admissions. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scientificsense/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/scientificsense/support
Alex Piasecki is the co-founder & COO of Seal the Seasons, a frozen fruit brand putting a farmers market in your freezer. Alex & his cofounder, Patrick, started Seal the Seasons as college students at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and have grown the company to be the 5th largest frozen fruit brand doing over $10M+ in annual revenue. You can find Seal The Season's products in over 5,000 grocery stores across the country, like Wegmans, Harris Teeter, Whole Foods, Costco, The Fresh Market, and others. Seal The Season's website: https://sealtheseasons.com/ Alex's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alejandro-alex-piasecki-a7690532/
On today's episode of Pod For the Cause, our host, Kanya Bennett, is joined by Star Wingate-Bey, a 2016 graduate of the University of North Carolina and a student intervenor who helped defend UNC's admissions policy in the affirmative action case involving the universtiy and Genize Bonadies Torres, Associate Director for the Educational Opportunities Project at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, to discuss affirmative action and the related cases before the Supreme Court - Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. University of North Carolina (UNC).
Dr. Sasha-Deutsch Link, a Gastroenterology and Hepatology fellow at the University of North Carolina (UNC), joins host her co-fellow Dr. Walker Redd, co-founder and host of RTL, to discuss Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease. Through a case discussion of a patient with acute alcohol-associated hepatitis, they review patient-centered terminology, the relevant diagnostic workup, and how to think both acute and chronic alcohol-associated liver disease. They also cover important principles of management, including supportive care, nutrition, pyschosocial support, pharmacotherapy for alcohol cessation, and consideration of early liver transplant, as well as the importance of longitudinal follow-up.
Another week of college football is in the books. This week we talk about Auburn getting killed by Penn State at home, coaches on the hot seat, and we of course give you our fantasy lineups for this week and pick some games. Hopefully, we do better at our picks this week! Here are the games we are picking with the spreads: West Virginia at Virginia Tech (WVU -1.5) Clemson at Wake Forrest (Clem -7) Baylor at Iowa State (ISU -3) Missouri at Auburn (Aub -7) Florida at Tennessee ( Tenn –10.5) Texas at Texas Tech (Texas –6.5) Notre Dame at North Carolina (UNC -1) Arkansas vs Texas 8&4 (T8&4 -2) Vanderbilt at Alabama (ala –40.5)
Mengenal Proofreading Oleh. Deena Noor (Kontributor Tetap NarasiPost.Com) Voice over talent: Maya Rohmah NarasiPost.Com-Bismillâhirrahmânirrahîm Assalaamu'alaikum warahmatullaahi wabarakaatuh Sahabat yang saya cintai karena Allah, izinkan saya untuk sedikit berbagi. Semoga ada manfaatnya. Sebagai orang yang bergelut dalam dunia kepenulisan, mungkin kita pernah mendengar tentang proofreading. Seperti apakah proofreading itu? Bagaimana melakukan proofreading? Sedikit pembahasan di bawah ini semoga bisa membantu. Proofreading dalam dunia tulis-menulis adalah sesuatu yang juga penting. Proofreading adalah proses pemeriksaan terakhir sebelum naskah tulisan dipublikasikan atau dibagikan secara publik. Menurut The Writing Center di University of North Carolina (UNC), proofreading adalah the final stage of editing process, focusing on surface errors such as misspellings and mistakes in grammar and punctuation. Naskah selengkapnya: https://narasipost.com/2022/06/03/mengenal-proofreading/ Terimakasih buat kalian yang sudah mendengarkan podcast ini, Follow us on: instagram: http://instagram.com/narasipost Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/narasi.post.9 Fanpage: Https://www.facebook.com/pg/narasipostmedia/posts/ Twitter: Http://twitter.com/narasipost
How does one even begin to bring up the topic of metastatic breast cancer to a child? In this third episode of our MBC & Parenting series, we'll talk to three experts that can give us some insight and guidance on how to talk with our children in the most open and safe ways. First up, Co-host Martha Carlson and Senior Co-host Victoria Goldberg speak with Dr. Leeza Park, psychiatrist, clinical researcher, and Deputy Director for the Comprehensive Cancer Support Program at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. Finally, Senior Co-host and Producer, Lisa Laudico and Co-host Martha Carlson have an illuminating conversation with Morgan Livingstone, Certified Child Life Specialist based in Toronto, Ontario Canada, and Amanda Celeste, Parenting Expert for Project Life, mother, wife, and teacher. Thanks for listening!More info is available on our website: www.ourmbclife.orgGot something to share? Feedback? Email: ourmbclife@sharecancersupport.org Send us a voice recording via email or through speakpipe on our website. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @ourmbclife
The Underdog squad bids farewell to our beloved Cinderellas, Saint Peter's and Miami, before we look ahead to a Tobacco Road first: UNC vs. Duke in the NCAA tournament! Can the little-engine-that-could Tar Heels pull off the upset? Jordan tries to keep it together as we preview the Final Four matchups, including the agent of chaos: Justin Moore's injury. Also, we play around in Peter Keating's fruit bowl as we take a look at MLB over/unders. The concept of replacement level is defined and emphasized for your MLB future needs. Then Tom introduces Bankrupt Baltimore and finally, Peter delivers his Grammy long shot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Underdog squad bids farewell to our beloved Cinderellas, Saint Peter's and Miami, before we look ahead to a Tobacco Road first: UNC vs. Duke in the NCAA tournament! Can the little-engine-that-could Tar Heels pull off the upset? Jordan tries to keep it together as we preview the Final Four matchups, including the agent of chaos: Justin Moore's injury. Also, we play around in Peter Keating's fruit bowl as we take a look at MLB over/unders. The concept of replacement level is defined and emphasized for your MLB future needs. Then Tom introduces Bankrupt Baltimore and finally, Peter delivers his Grammy long shot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A concept developed in basketball and popularised by one of US college soccer's most successful coaches has been adopted by a women's team competing in England's fifth tier.Fred Wright, coach at Whyteleafe Women, was inspired by Anson Dorrance's use of the ‘competitive cauldron' system at the ultra- successful University of North Carolina (UNC) women's program.The ‘competitive cauldron' measures various performance indicators at training and Wright – a 36-year-old Uefa B licenced coach – credits it with boosting the intensity of his team's sessions this season.SCW caught up with him prior to one training session this week to find out more…
American scientists say they have created a vaccine patch that provides greater protection against infectious diseases than traditional injections.美国科学家表示，他们创造了一种疫苗贴剂，与传统注射剂相比，可以提供更好的传染病保护。A 3D printer is used to make the patch, which is smaller than the tip of a finger. Each patch – which contains many small “micro-needles” – can be put directly on the skin.3D 打印机用于制作比指尖还小的贴剂。每个贴片——包含许多小“微针”——可以直接放在皮肤上。The researchers said in a statement the experiments showed the patch provided an immune response 10 times greater than vaccines injected into arm muscles. And they reported it offered an immune response 50 times greater than vaccines injected under the skin.研究人员在一份声明中说，实验表明，该贴剂提供的免疫反应是注射到手臂肌肉中的疫苗的 10 倍。他们报告说，它提供的免疫反应是皮下注射疫苗的 50 倍。The tests were carried out on mice, with plans to expand the experiments to humans.这些测试是在老鼠想要进行的，并计划将实验扩展到人类。The results were recently described in a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The team was led by scientists from Stanford University and the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill.最近在美国国家科学院院刊 (PNAS) 上发表的一项研究中描述了这一结果。该团队由斯坦福大学和教堂山北卡罗来纳大学 (UNC) 的科学家领导。The researchers say the increased effectiveness happens because the patch releases substances directly into the skin, which is full of immune cells that are targeted by vaccines.研究人员表示，之所以能提高有效性，是因为贴剂将物质直接释放到皮肤中，皮肤上充满了疫苗靶向的免疫细胞。The scientists say that in addition to the patch vaccine being better at fighting disease, it has several other advantages over traditional injections. The patch is painless, does not require cold storage and can be given by individuals themselves.科学家们说，除了贴剂疫苗更擅长对抗疾病之外，它还有其他几个优于传统注射剂的优势。该贴片是无痛的，不需要冷藏，可以由个人自己给予。The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of vaccines as a way to control viruses in massive populations. But there are barriers that prevent some populations from getting the injections. One of these is the need to keep the vaccines in cold storage. Another is that it can be difficult for people in many parts of the world to get to a place that can administer the shots.COVID-19 大流行已经证明了疫苗作为一种在大量人群中控制病毒的方式的重要性。但是有一些障碍会阻止某些人群进行注射。其中之一是需要将疫苗冷藏。另一个原因是，世界上许多地方的人可能很难到达可以进行注射的地方。The researchers developing the patch say they hope the method will one day help solve these issues and increase vaccine access to millions more people around the world. And because of how the patch works, a smaller amount of vaccine can be used.开发该贴片的研究人员表示，他们希望该方法有朝一日能帮助解决这些问题，并增加全球数百万人获得疫苗的机会。而且由于贴剂的工作原理，可以使用较少量的疫苗。Shaomin Tian is a researcher in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the UNC School of Medicine. She helped lead the study. She said in a statement that the team was able to overcome manufacturing difficulties that have hurt efforts in the past to create an effective patch vaccine that uses micro-needles.田少民是北卡罗来纳大学医学院微生物学和免疫学系的研究员。她帮助领导了这项研究。她在一份声明中说，该团队能够克服制造困难，这些困难阻碍了过去创造使用微针的有效贴剂疫苗的努力。Tian said one problem with past methods was a reduction in needle sharpness from repeated manufacturing using patch molds.田说，过去方法的一个问题是使用贴片模具重复制造会降低针的锋利度。But the researchers' new method permitted them to directly 3D print the patches. “Which gives us lots of design latitude for making the best micro-needles from a performance and cost point-of-view,” Tian said.但是研究人员的新方法允许他们直接 3D 打印贴剂。“从性能和成本的角度来看，这为我们制造最好的微针提供了很大的设计空间，”田说。The team says it is continuing to work on developing ways to include current COVID-19 vaccines - such as those from Pfizer and Moderna - for use in micro-needle patches for future testing. The method could be used for other disease vaccines as well.该团队表示，它正在继续努力开发将当前的 COVID-19 疫苗（例如辉瑞和 Moderna 的疫苗）纳入微针贴剂以供未来测试的方法。该方法也可用于其他疾病疫苗。Other research has been done on the use of vaccine patches. Last year, scientists from the University of Pittsburgh announced they had developed a COVID-19 vaccine that could be delivered into the skin through a patch of 400 micro-needles.已经对疫苗贴剂的使用进行了其他研究。去年，匹兹堡大学的科学家宣布他们已经开发出一种 COVID-19 疫苗，可以通过 400 根微针将其输送到皮肤中。And in Australia, researchers from the University of Queensland reported in June they had created a vaccine patch that demonstrated “extremely clear” results in tests on mice. The scientists said the patches produced “much stronger and more protective immune responses against COVID-19” than traditional vaccine delivery methods.在澳大利亚，昆士兰大学的研究人员在 6 月份报告说，他们研制了一种疫苗贴剂，在对小鼠的测试中显示出“非常清楚”的结果。科学家们表示，与传统的疫苗投递方法相比，这些贴剂产生了“针对 COVID-19 的更强大、更具保护性的免疫反应”。
American scientists say they have created a vaccine patch that provides greater protection against infectious diseases than traditional injections.美国科学家表示，他们创造了一种疫苗贴剂，与传统注射剂相比，可以提供更好的传染病保护。A 3D printer is used to make the patch, which is smaller than the tip of a finger. Each patch – which contains many small “micro-needles” – can be put directly on the skin.3D 打印机用于制作比指尖还小的贴剂。每个贴片——包含许多小“微针”——可以直接放在皮肤上。The researchers said in a statement the experiments showed the patch provided an immune response 10 times greater than vaccines injected into arm muscles. And they reported it offered an immune response 50 times greater than vaccines injected under the skin.研究人员在一份声明中说，实验表明，该贴剂提供的免疫反应是注射到手臂肌肉中的疫苗的 10 倍。他们报告说，它提供的免疫反应是皮下注射疫苗的 50 倍。The tests were carried out on mice, with plans to expand the experiments to humans.这些测试是在老鼠想要进行的，并计划将实验扩展到人类。The results were recently described in a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The team was led by scientists from Stanford University and the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill.最近在美国国家科学院院刊 (PNAS) 上发表的一项研究中描述了这一结果。该团队由斯坦福大学和教堂山北卡罗来纳大学 (UNC) 的科学家领导。The researchers say the increased effectiveness happens because the patch releases substances directly into the skin, which is full of immune cells that are targeted by vaccines.研究人员表示，之所以能提高有效性，是因为贴剂将物质直接释放到皮肤中，皮肤上充满了疫苗靶向的免疫细胞。The scientists say that in addition to the patch vaccine being better at fighting disease, it has several other advantages over traditional injections. The patch is painless, does not require cold storage and can be given by individuals themselves.科学家们说，除了贴剂疫苗更擅长对抗疾病之外，它还有其他几个优于传统注射剂的优势。该贴片是无痛的，不需要冷藏，可以由个人自己给予。The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of vaccines as a way to control viruses in massive populations. But there are barriers that prevent some populations from getting the injections. One of these is the need to keep the vaccines in cold storage. Another is that it can be difficult for people in many parts of the world to get to a place that can administer the shots.COVID-19 大流行已经证明了疫苗作为一种在大量人群中控制病毒的方式的重要性。但是有一些障碍会阻止某些人群进行注射。其中之一是需要将疫苗冷藏。另一个原因是，世界上许多地方的人可能很难到达可以进行注射的地方。The researchers developing the patch say they hope the method will one day help solve these issues and increase vaccine access to millions more people around the world. And because of how the patch works, a smaller amount of vaccine can be used.开发该贴片的研究人员表示，他们希望该方法有朝一日能帮助解决这些问题，并增加全球数百万人获得疫苗的机会。而且由于贴剂的工作原理，可以使用较少量的疫苗。Shaomin Tian is a researcher in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the UNC School of Medicine. She helped lead the study. She said in a statement that the team was able to overcome manufacturing difficulties that have hurt efforts in the past to create an effective patch vaccine that uses micro-needles.田少民是北卡罗来纳大学医学院微生物学和免疫学系的研究员。她帮助领导了这项研究。她在一份声明中说，该团队能够克服制造困难，这些困难阻碍了过去创造使用微针的有效贴剂疫苗的努力。Tian said one problem with past methods was a reduction in needle sharpness from repeated manufacturing using patch molds.田说，过去方法的一个问题是使用贴片模具重复制造会降低针的锋利度。But the researchers' new method permitted them to directly 3D print the patches. “Which gives us lots of design latitude for making the best micro-needles from a performance and cost point-of-view,” Tian said.但是研究人员的新方法允许他们直接 3D 打印贴剂。“从性能和成本的角度来看，这为我们制造最好的微针提供了很大的设计空间，”田说。The team says it is continuing to work on developing ways to include current COVID-19 vaccines - such as those from Pfizer and Moderna - for use in micro-needle patches for future testing. The method could be used for other disease vaccines as well.该团队表示，它正在继续努力开发将当前的 COVID-19 疫苗（例如辉瑞和 Moderna 的疫苗）纳入微针贴剂以供未来测试的方法。该方法也可用于其他疾病疫苗。Other research has been done on the use of vaccine patches. Last year, scientists from the University of Pittsburgh announced they had developed a COVID-19 vaccine that could be delivered into the skin through a patch of 400 micro-needles.已经对疫苗贴剂的使用进行了其他研究。去年，匹兹堡大学的科学家宣布他们已经开发出一种 COVID-19 疫苗，可以通过 400 根微针将其输送到皮肤中。And in Australia, researchers from the University of Queensland reported in June they had created a vaccine patch that demonstrated “extremely clear” results in tests on mice. The scientists said the patches produced “much stronger and more protective immune responses against COVID-19” than traditional vaccine delivery methods.在澳大利亚，昆士兰大学的研究人员在 6 月份报告说，他们研制了一种疫苗贴剂，在对小鼠的测试中显示出“非常清楚”的结果。科学家们表示，与传统的疫苗投递方法相比，这些贴剂产生了“针对 COVID-19 的更强大、更具保护性的免疫反应”。
American scientists say they have created a vaccine patch that provides greater protection against infectious diseases than traditional injections.美国科学家表示，他们创造了一种疫苗贴剂，与传统注射剂相比，可以提供更好的传染病保护。A 3D printer is used to make the patch, which is smaller than the tip of a finger. Each patch – which contains many small “micro-needles” – can be put directly on the skin.3D 打印机用于制作比指尖还小的贴剂。每个贴片——包含许多小“微针”——可以直接放在皮肤上。The researchers said in a statement the experiments showed the patch provided an immune response 10 times greater than vaccines injected into arm muscles. And they reported it offered an immune response 50 times greater than vaccines injected under the skin.研究人员在一份声明中说，实验表明，该贴剂提供的免疫反应是注射到手臂肌肉中的疫苗的 10 倍。他们报告说，它提供的免疫反应是皮下注射疫苗的 50 倍。The tests were carried out on mice, with plans to expand the experiments to humans.这些测试是在老鼠想要进行的，并计划将实验扩展到人类。The results were recently described in a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The team was led by scientists from Stanford University and the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill.最近在美国国家科学院院刊 (PNAS) 上发表的一项研究中描述了这一结果。该团队由斯坦福大学和教堂山北卡罗来纳大学 (UNC) 的科学家领导。The researchers say the increased effectiveness happens because the patch releases substances directly into the skin, which is full of immune cells that are targeted by vaccines.研究人员表示，之所以能提高有效性，是因为贴剂将物质直接释放到皮肤中，皮肤上充满了疫苗靶向的免疫细胞。The scientists say that in addition to the patch vaccine being better at fighting disease, it has several other advantages over traditional injections. The patch is painless, does not require cold storage and can be given by individuals themselves.科学家们说，除了贴剂疫苗更擅长对抗疾病之外，它还有其他几个优于传统注射剂的优势。该贴片是无痛的，不需要冷藏，可以由个人自己给予。The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of vaccines as a way to control viruses in massive populations. But there are barriers that prevent some populations from getting the injections. One of these is the need to keep the vaccines in cold storage. Another is that it can be difficult for people in many parts of the world to get to a place that can administer the shots.COVID-19 大流行已经证明了疫苗作为一种在大量人群中控制病毒的方式的重要性。但是有一些障碍会阻止某些人群进行注射。其中之一是需要将疫苗冷藏。另一个原因是，世界上许多地方的人可能很难到达可以进行注射的地方。The researchers developing the patch say they hope the method will one day help solve these issues and increase vaccine access to millions more people around the world. And because of how the patch works, a smaller amount of vaccine can be used.开发该贴片的研究人员表示，他们希望该方法有朝一日能帮助解决这些问题，并增加全球数百万人获得疫苗的机会。而且由于贴剂的工作原理，可以使用较少量的疫苗。Shaomin Tian is a researcher in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the UNC School of Medicine. She helped lead the study. She said in a statement that the team was able to overcome manufacturing difficulties that have hurt efforts in the past to create an effective patch vaccine that uses micro-needles.田少民是北卡罗来纳大学医学院微生物学和免疫学系的研究员。她帮助领导了这项研究。她在一份声明中说，该团队能够克服制造困难，这些困难阻碍了过去创造使用微针的有效贴剂疫苗的努力。Tian said one problem with past methods was a reduction in needle sharpness from repeated manufacturing using patch molds.田说，过去方法的一个问题是使用贴片模具重复制造会降低针的锋利度。But the researchers' new method permitted them to directly 3D print the patches. “Which gives us lots of design latitude for making the best micro-needles from a performance and cost point-of-view,” Tian said.但是研究人员的新方法允许他们直接 3D 打印贴剂。“从性能和成本的角度来看，这为我们制造最好的微针提供了很大的设计空间，”田说。The team says it is continuing to work on developing ways to include current COVID-19 vaccines - such as those from Pfizer and Moderna - for use in micro-needle patches for future testing. The method could be used for other disease vaccines as well.该团队表示，它正在继续努力开发将当前的 COVID-19 疫苗（例如辉瑞和 Moderna 的疫苗）纳入微针贴剂以供未来测试的方法。该方法也可用于其他疾病疫苗。Other research has been done on the use of vaccine patches. Last year, scientists from the University of Pittsburgh announced they had developed a COVID-19 vaccine that could be delivered into the skin through a patch of 400 micro-needles.已经对疫苗贴剂的使用进行了其他研究。去年，匹兹堡大学的科学家宣布他们已经开发出一种 COVID-19 疫苗，可以通过 400 根微针将其输送到皮肤中。And in Australia, researchers from the University of Queensland reported in June they had created a vaccine patch that demonstrated “extremely clear” results in tests on mice. The scientists said the patches produced “much stronger and more protective immune responses against COVID-19” than traditional vaccine delivery methods.在澳大利亚，昆士兰大学的研究人员在 6 月份报告说，他们研制了一种疫苗贴剂，在对小鼠的测试中显示出“非常清楚”的结果。科学家们表示，与传统的疫苗投递方法相比，这些贴剂产生了“针对 COVID-19 的更强大、更具保护性的免疫反应”。
American scientists say they have created a vaccine patch that provides greater protection against infectious diseases than traditional injections.美国科学家表示，他们创造了一种疫苗贴剂，与传统注射剂相比，可以提供更好的传染病保护。A 3D printer is used to make the patch, which is smaller than the tip of a finger. Each patch – which contains many small “micro-needles” – can be put directly on the skin.3D 打印机用于制作比指尖还小的贴剂。每个贴片——包含许多小“微针”——可以直接放在皮肤上。The researchers said in a statement the experiments showed the patch provided an immune response 10 times greater than vaccines injected into arm muscles. And they reported it offered an immune response 50 times greater than vaccines injected under the skin.研究人员在一份声明中说，实验表明，该贴剂提供的免疫反应是注射到手臂肌肉中的疫苗的 10 倍。他们报告说，它提供的免疫反应是皮下注射疫苗的 50 倍。The tests were carried out on mice, with plans to expand the experiments to humans.这些测试是在老鼠想要进行的，并计划将实验扩展到人类。The results were recently described in a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The team was led by scientists from Stanford University and the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill.最近在美国国家科学院院刊 (PNAS) 上发表的一项研究中描述了这一结果。该团队由斯坦福大学和教堂山北卡罗来纳大学 (UNC) 的科学家领导。The researchers say the increased effectiveness happens because the patch releases substances directly into the skin, which is full of immune cells that are targeted by vaccines.研究人员表示，之所以能提高有效性，是因为贴剂将物质直接释放到皮肤中，皮肤上充满了疫苗靶向的免疫细胞。The scientists say that in addition to the patch vaccine being better at fighting disease, it has several other advantages over traditional injections. The patch is painless, does not require cold storage and can be given by individuals themselves.科学家们说，除了贴剂疫苗更擅长对抗疾病之外，它还有其他几个优于传统注射剂的优势。该贴片是无痛的，不需要冷藏，可以由个人自己给予。The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of vaccines as a way to control viruses in massive populations. But there are barriers that prevent some populations from getting the injections. One of these is the need to keep the vaccines in cold storage. Another is that it can be difficult for people in many parts of the world to get to a place that can administer the shots.COVID-19 大流行已经证明了疫苗作为一种在大量人群中控制病毒的方式的重要性。但是有一些障碍会阻止某些人群进行注射。其中之一是需要将疫苗冷藏。另一个原因是，世界上许多地方的人可能很难到达可以进行注射的地方。The researchers developing the patch say they hope the method will one day help solve these issues and increase vaccine access to millions more people around the world. And because of how the patch works, a smaller amount of vaccine can be used.开发该贴片的研究人员表示，他们希望该方法有朝一日能帮助解决这些问题，并增加全球数百万人获得疫苗的机会。而且由于贴剂的工作原理，可以使用较少量的疫苗。Shaomin Tian is a researcher in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology in the UNC School of Medicine. She helped lead the study. She said in a statement that the team was able to overcome manufacturing difficulties that have hurt efforts in the past to create an effective patch vaccine that uses micro-needles.田少民是北卡罗来纳大学医学院微生物学和免疫学系的研究员。她帮助领导了这项研究。她在一份声明中说，该团队能够克服制造困难，这些困难阻碍了过去创造使用微针的有效贴剂疫苗的努力。Tian said one problem with past methods was a reduction in needle sharpness from repeated manufacturing using patch molds.田说，过去方法的一个问题是使用贴片模具重复制造会降低针的锋利度。But the researchers' new method permitted them to directly 3D print the patches. “Which gives us lots of design latitude for making the best micro-needles from a performance and cost point-of-view,” Tian said.但是研究人员的新方法允许他们直接 3D 打印贴剂。“从性能和成本的角度来看，这为我们制造最好的微针提供了很大的设计空间，”田说。The team says it is continuing to work on developing ways to include current COVID-19 vaccines - such as those from Pfizer and Moderna - for use in micro-needle patches for future testing. The method could be used for other disease vaccines as well.该团队表示，它正在继续努力开发将当前的 COVID-19 疫苗（例如辉瑞和 Moderna 的疫苗）纳入微针贴剂以供未来测试的方法。该方法也可用于其他疾病疫苗。Other research has been done on the use of vaccine patches. Last year, scientists from the University of Pittsburgh announced they had developed a COVID-19 vaccine that could be delivered into the skin through a patch of 400 micro-needles.已经对疫苗贴剂的使用进行了其他研究。去年，匹兹堡大学的科学家宣布他们已经开发出一种 COVID-19 疫苗，可以通过 400 根微针将其输送到皮肤中。And in Australia, researchers from the University of Queensland reported in June they had created a vaccine patch that demonstrated “extremely clear” results in tests on mice. The scientists said the patches produced “much stronger and more protective immune responses against COVID-19” than traditional vaccine delivery methods.在澳大利亚，昆士兰大学的研究人员在 6 月份报告说，他们研制了一种疫苗贴剂，在对小鼠的测试中显示出“非常清楚”的结果。科学家们表示，与传统的疫苗投递方法相比，这些贴剂产生了“针对 COVID-19 的更强大、更具保护性的免疫反应”。
If you want to be the best at innovating and what you are doing, you have to be up to speed on what’s going on to be viewed as an expert. In this episode of GuideWire, Devin Hubbard with FastTraCS talks to Dr. Yee Lam about innovation instruction in medical training. Dr. Lam is a family medicine provider at the University of North Carolina (UNC), member of the Clinical Advisory Group for FastTraCS, and innovation instructor for medical students. She earned a PhD at Duke University before completing medical school at UNC. Then, Dr. Lam did a residency in Family Medicine at UNC at Chapel Hill. As a family medicine practitioner, Dr. Lam provides care to patients throughout their life span. She works in several different settings, including outpatient clinics and hospital services. Today’s Topics Include: FastTraCS Fit: Chance connection and background in innovation led to recommendation Lifelong Learner and Teacher: Dr. Lam earned her PhD before going to medical school Engineer Trend: Mutually innovative tech thinkers seek out Dr. Lam as their provider Capstone Course: Social and Health System Science 5 - make something better Techniques: Break problems down and seek advice from mentors to think critically Individualization: What do you care about most, interested in, and makes an impact? Team Sport: Students, stakeholders, and collaborators complement skill sets Innovation Investment: Takes too long or too little time to teach and improve outcomes Clinical Advisory Group: Who’s information is most important when? MD, NP, PA, PT...? Pave Path to Passion: Build and seek out collaboration, awareness, and expertise Links and Resources: Devin Hubbard FastTraCS Dr. Yee Lam Clinical Advisory Group GuideWire Podcast on Twitter GuideWire Podcast Quotes: “I was always interested in how technology can impact health and improve health.” “I want to empower the students to think about what is something you want to make better.” Some Medical Students: “They already have a passion to address a need.” “Celebrate the small successes.” “Knowing to reach out and create these collaborative teams is the best way to innovate and provide the best care at the same time.”
In this episode, we have Dr. Tiana Garrett-Cherry, PhD, MPH. She's a highly-motivated epidemiologist and science copyeditor with strong analytic and communication skills and over 15 years of demonstrated experience in disease surveillance and research in science and for public health programs. She has her Bachelors in Chemistry from Virginia State University. Then went on to get her PhD in Cell and Development Biology at University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill which she continued on to get her Master of Public Health at UNC at Chapel Hill. She's gotten a postdoctoral fellowship at UNC Chapel Hill. She is also the Founder and Principal Consultant at Indices Consulting LLC.Follow the Guest on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indicesconsulting/ Omari on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omari-richins-mphShownotes: thePHmillennial.com/episode58Support The Public Health Millennial: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/thephmillenialUse Code “thePHmillennial” for discount: https://thepublichealthstore.comWebsite: https://thephmillennial.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thephmillenial (@thePHmillennial)Email List: https://thephmillennial.com/signup/Support the show (http://paypal.me/thePHmillennial)
Greg Brown, Executive Director at the Institute for Private Capital and Finance Professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Kenan-Flagler Business School, joins Winna Brown to discuss what the Institute's academic research says about PE's performance and the role private capital plays in the global economy. To get in touch with Greg, email uncipc@kenan-flagler.unc.edu The Institute for Private Capital (IPC) is a non-profit, multi-university research initiative that's housed at the University of North Carolina (UNC). Its mission is to improve public understanding of private capital's role in the global economy by providing unbiased and independent research, conducted by a network of academic affiliates, with support from private sector companies. There are more than 35 member institutions involved in IPC – EY is one such institution – and these institutional supporters play a critical role in ensuring IPC research solves specific, practical issues affecting the PE industry. Two topics are consistently top of mind for PE investors: PE's role in the investment portfolio and the specific factors that predict future returns. IPC research explores an array of additional topics, and some of their findings include the following: Portfolios with private fund investments have superior returns on a risk-adjusted basis. There is a “risk-return pecking order” in which PE produces better risk-adjusted outcomes. The performance of individual deal partners is a reliable indicator of future fund performance. There are distinct determinants of performance at various stages of a fund's life cycle. PE makes meaningful and direct contributions to portfolio company operations. After PE enters a new market, there is a positive spillover to the broader economy in the form of an overall productivity increase. Over the coming years, there are two major focus areas for research and discussion in the academic community regarding private equity: To more deeply understand how private assets fit into the broader portfolio management process To identify performance drivers at PE-backed portfolio companies and explore how this has changed over time
On this episode of “Beyond the White Coat,” Karey Sutton, PhD, AAMC director of health equity research workforce and director of research for the AAMC Center for Health Justice, talks with experts Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, and Aaron Gerstenmaier, MD, about the racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 vaccination rates and explores strategies to promote equity in vaccine access. Episode Guests:Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, is a Kenan distinguished professor of the Departments of Social Medicine and Medicine and the director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, as well as the associate provost for UNC Rural Initiatives at UNC Chapel Hill. She is nationally recognized for her scholarly work on the inclusion of disparity populations in research and is accomplished in drawing communities, faculty, and health care providers into working partnerships in clinical and translational research. Her empirical work, using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, has focused on the methodological, ethical, and practical issues of research to address racial disparities in health.Aaron Gerstenmaier, MD, is the associate chief medical officer of Community of Hope — a nonprofit organization that focuses health services on low-income, medically under-resourced residents of Washington, D.C. — where he oversees a wide range of medical care and other programs designed to improve the health of vulnerable populations. Dr. Gerstenmaier has played a critical role in ensuring the continuity of medical services to the Washington, D.C., community during the pandemic, overseeing the transition to virtual care, supporting occupational health programs, ensuring clinical protocols for COVID-19 testing and vaccine distribution, and providing a range of other health services to over 11,000 patients in 2020. As an assistant professor of medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine, he demonstrates a strong commitment to medical student and resident education, particularly around the importance and role of community health care. He also has his degree of fellow from the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Gerstenmaier is board-certified in family medicine and received his medical degree from the Ohio State University College of Medicine. He also completed his residency at Georgetown/Providence Family Medicine Residency Program.Credits:Hosted by Karey Sutton, PhD, AAMC director of health equity research workforce and director of research for the AAMC Center for Health Justice.Produced by Stephanie Weiner, AAMC director of digital strategy and engagement, and Laura Zelaya, AAMC production manager.Recorded and edited by Laura Zelaya, AAMC production manager.With special contributions from Michelle Zajac, AAMC digital copy editor; Sholape Oriola, AAMC video specialist; and Mikhaila Richards, AAMC senior digital content strategist.You Might Also Be Interested In:“A Different Kind of Leader” podcast 10 Principles of Trustworthiness from the AAMC Center for Health Justice
Today on Boston Public Radio: EJ Dionne talks about Democrats' responses to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's policies, and the generational divide among American Jews on Israel and Palestine. Dionne is a columnist for The Washington Post and a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution. His latest book is "Code Red: How Progressives And Moderates Can Unite To Save Our Country.” Next, we open phone lines, asking listeners whether they want to continue working from home or return to the office. Rebecca Ostriker discusses the Boston Globe Spotlight team's recent investigation into the Holyoke Soldiers' Home. Ostriker is a news reporter for the Boston Globe. Trenni Kusnierek talks about golfer Phil Mickelson's historic win as the oldest major champion to win the PGA Championship. She also discusses the Tokyo Olympics' COVID-19 restrictions. Kusnierek is a reporter and anchor for NBC Sports Boston, and a weekly Boston Public Radio contributor. Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett G. Price III share their thoughts on 1619 Project leader and journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones being denied tenure by the University of North Carolina (UNC), and conservatives' responses to the murder of George Floyd a year after his death. Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist, the Boston voice for Detour's African American Heritage Trail, and a visiting researcher in the Religion and Conflict Transformation Program at the Boston University School of Theology. Price is an executive director of the Institute for the Study of the Black Christian Experience at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Together, they host GBH's All Rev'd Up podcast. Richard Blanco highlights poems by war veterans and military spouses ahead of Memorial Day. Blanco is the fifth inaugural poet in U.S. history. His new book, "How To Love A Country," deals with various socio-political issues that shadow America. We wrap up the show by asking listeners for their thoughts on the future of the handshake, post-pandemic.
On this episode I have the chance to speak with Josh Starmer. Josh is the founder and CEO of StatQuest (https://www.youtube.com/user/joshstarmer), a YouTube channel that teaches Data Science topics like Statistics and Machine Learning. Prior to StatQuest, Josh was an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. At StatQuest, Josh makes Data Science topics clearly explained. Bam.
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill nutrition scholar Barry Popkin, PhD, and JAMA Medical News Associate Managing Editor Jennifer Abbasi discuss new findings on obesity and COVID-19. Popkin is the lead author of a systematic review and meta-analysis on the topic that was published recently in Obesity Reviews. He is a distinguished professor in the department of nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Related Article(s): Large Meta-analysis Digs Into Obesity's COVID-19 Risks
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill nutrition scholar Barry Popkin, PhD, and JAMA Medical News Associate Managing Editor Jennifer Abbasi discuss new findings on obesity and COVID-19. Popkin is the lead author of a systematic review and meta-analysis on the topic that was published recently in Obesity Reviews. He is a distinguished professor in the department of nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Related Article(s): Large Meta-analysis Digs Into Obesity’s COVID-19 Risks
Psychologists Off The Clock: A Psychology Podcast About The Science And Practice Of Living Well
How often do you find yourself relating to your body as a physical being rather than a physical object? Celebrating what it can do for you instead of fixating on how it looks in the mirror? If you’re like most people, not often! All too often we find ourselves comparing how our body looks to narrowly-defined cultural ideals that are unhealthy, unsustainable, and just plain inaccessible! In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Webb, associate professor at UNC Charlotte, and Yael discuss strategies for responding to the cultural messages that we receive in ways that cultivate body kindness and inclusivity. Listen and Learn: How looking at our body as process is more useful than looking at our body as an objectHow body shaming de-motivates healthy behaviors How to integrate an acceptance and commitment therapy take on “body flexibility”Specific practices to cultivate body flexibility and kindness About Dr. Webb: Jennifer Webb, Ph.D., is a clinical health psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. Webb is also the Director of the MIND-BATCH Lab at UNC Charlotte, which is dedicated to furthering research about positive psychology, mindfulness, body acceptance, culture, and health. Her research is informed by multiculturally inclusive values and Dr. Webb is specifically interested in the experience of young ethnic minority women as well as the effects of weight-related body shaming and the mind-body connection on appetite, metabolism, and weight. Dr. Webb received her bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Neuroscience from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Southern California. Resources: To learn more about Jennifer’s research, follow these links: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jennifer_Webb2https://www.researchgate.net/lab/MIND-BATCH-Lab-Jennifer-B-WebbRealizing Yoga’s All-Access Pass: A Social Justice Critique of Westernized Yoga and Inclusive MovementIs “Yoga Bod” the New Skinny?: A Comparative Content Analysis of Mainstream of Yoga Lifestyle Magazine CoversThe interview with Jennifer on the Body Kindness podcast To learn more about yoga inclusivity resources, check out the following: Yoga and Body Image CoalitionAccessible YogaDecolonizing YogaBody Positive YogaCurvy YogaJessamyn StanleyDianne BondyYes! Yoga Has Curves
President Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton. Aaron Salzberg. One of these 3 people regularly wears a pretty sick ponytail and has sat down to talk water policy with the other 2. That person is our guest this week: Aaron Salzberg is Director of the Water Institute at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. He joins host Jay Famiglietti to chronicle his journey from car mechanic to heavy-hitting water diplomat in the State Department, to his new gig at UNC. Aaron tells some riveting behind-the-scenes stories on his time working with politicians, and he and Jay start an impromptu therapy session on the struggles of working in the water world.
The CyberPHIx Roundup is your quick source for keeping up with the latest cybersecurity news, trends and industry leading practices, specifically for the healthcare industry. In this episode, our host Brian Selfridge highlights the following topics trending in healthcare security this week: The New NIST Privacy framework released in January 2020 OCR fine for Texas Health and Human Services ($1.6m) A breach reported by The University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill School of Medicine New research that correlates cybersecurity events to adverse patient safety outcomes
This week's guest is University of North Carolina (UNC) women’s basketball head coach, Courtney Banghart. Her recent arrival in Chapel Hill has the Tar Heels primed for a resurgence to national prominence. Courtney candidly shares how her intentional approach to building a winning culture, empowering the pieces, and being all in with family are a recipe for success. Regardless of what sport you coach, you’ll be energized by Courtney’s vulnerable and authentic leadership. For show notes and related links for this episode click HERE. For more conversations from the world of women’s sport including articles, blogs, videos and podcasts visit wispsports.com. WiSP Sports is The Only Podcast Network for Women’s Sport with more than 20 hosts, 1200+ episodes across 46 shows and more than 5 million downloads and feeds. WiSP Sports is on all major podcast players. Follow WiSP Sports on social media @WiSPsports. Contact us at info@wispsports.com.
You often see a disclaimer on a diet article or commercial that goes something like, “Please see a doctor before starting any exercise program.” What are they supposed to be looking for? We often hear about “health markers.” What are they? Bottomline: How do doctors decide if you’re generally healthy? Here’s what we came up with: Is there some standard list of results that matter the most? How important are HDL, LDL, and triglycerides? Are resting heart rate and blood pressure more or less critical?? What other tests might be important in determining whether you’re at immediate risk, or is even possible to know? Dr. Spencer Nadolsky is a practicing board-certified family medicine physician. After a successful athletic career at University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, he enrolled in medical school at Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Blacksburg. He aspired to change the world of medicine by supporting lifestyle over drugs (when possible). He specializes in Obesity Medicine. And yes, he lifts. Our ideas start about 12:40. Dr. Nadolsky joins us about 20:00. We kick off the episode talking about whether being a "jack of all trades" is all it's cracked up to be. You can find Dr. Nadolsky on Instagram at @drnadolsky, on Facebook at facebook.com/DrSpencerNadolsky, on Twitter at @DrNadolsky, and at his website: drspencer.com Hosted by Mike Farr (@silentmikke) and Jim McDonald (@thejimmcd). Produced by Jim McDonald Production assistance by Connor O’Neal. Theme by Aaron Moore. Branding by Joseph Manzo.
Seems like we’ve been hearing about the dangers of too much salt for decades because of its effect on blood pressure, but lately we’ve seen recommendations about adding salt to your diet for better performance. Is salt really dangerous? Does it actually help you perform better? Here’s what we came up with: Does salt always affect blood pressure? Why would additional salt improve performance? Are some kinds of salt better or worse for you? Why have always been told to avoid? Do powerlifters need sports drinks like Gatorade? Dr. Spencer Nadolsky is a practicing board-certified family medicine physician. After a successful athletic career at University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, he enrolled in medical school at Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Blacksburg. He aspired to change the world of medicine by supporting lifestyle over drugs (when possible). He specializes in Obesity Medicine. And yes, he lifts. Our ideas start about 11:20. Dr. Nadolsky joins us about 19:00. He outlines the situations were additional salt might hurt or help, and when the wrong type of salt might lead to hypothyroidism. We kick off the episode talking about bike shopping, and shopping for flights on Hopper, Google Flights, and Scott’s Cheap Flights. You can find Dr. Nadolsky on Instagram at @drnadolsky, on Facebook at facebook.com/DrSpencerNadolsky, on Twitter at @DrNadolsky, and at his website: drspencer.com Hosted by Mike Farr (@silentmikke) and Jim McDonald (@thejimmcd). Produced by Jim McDonald Production assistance by Connor O’Neal. Theme by Aaron Moore. Branding by Joseph Manzo.
Dr. Selene Parekh (Orthopedic Surgeon at Duke Orthopaedics & Creator of the Fantasy Doctors Podcasts) comes onto HET Podcast to discuss his perspective as a surgeon discussing his surgical training, medical/surgery education, entrepreneurship, and more. The Fantasy Doctor's Website The Fantasy Doctor's Facebook The Fantasy Doctor's Twitter The Fantasy Doctor's Instagram The Fantasy Doctor's MLB Podcast The Fantasy Doctor's NFL Podcast The Fantasy Doctor's Soccer Podcast The Fantasy Doctor's NBA Podcast Contact Information Facebook: Selene Parekh Twitter: @seleneparekhmd Instagram: seleneparekhmd Dr. Selene Parekh, M.D. (also known as the “Fantasy Doctor”) is an orthopaedic surgeon and foremost expert on sports injuries who's fast becoming the go-to expert for the multibillion dollar fantasy sports industry. His data-driven insights and medical expertise make for powerfully accurate predictions of how anything from common sprains to devastating season-ending injuries will affect players' careers and the success of millions of fantasy teams. Fantasy sports for Parekh is far more than a hobby: He authored and published two foundational research papers using Fantasy football data to track the epidemiology and outcomes of tendon and ligament ruptures in the NFL. Dr. Parekh joined the North Carolina Orthopaedic Clinic and Duke Orthopaedics in 2009, where he is an Associate Professor of Surgery in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Prior to his tenure at Duke, Dr. Parekh was a Foot and Ankle Surgeon at the University of North Carolina (UNC). While there, he was integrally involved in the teaching of medical students and residents. Furthermore, he served as the foot and ankle consultant to the Athletic Department, treating many of the well-known UNC athletes. In his current practice, he continues to treat competitive athletes of all levels. A graduate of the Boston University School of Medicine, Dr. Parekh completed his internship and residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and his fellowship in foot and ankle surgery under the direction of some of the leading global authorities at the University of Pennsylvania. The Fantasy Doctor is an avid runner and has completed the Boston Marathon, and in his former life as a high school athletic star, was offered football scholarships from several Ivy League schools and was the recipient of the Brian Piccolo Award. Dr. Parekh is married and he and his wife are the proud parents of three kids. More In-Depth Biography The PT Hustle Website Schedule an Appointment with Kyle Rice HET LITE Tool Anywhere Healthcare (code: HET)
If you had to present your scientific work to a room full of non-experts, what would be your approach? Have you been in that scenario before? What strategies have you used to convey your data and findings to the uninitiated? Here to provide some excellent advice on this topic is Dr. Ross Beattie. After his presentation to DisrupTECH in July 2018, Ross was selected to participate in the Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program. Before his selection, Ross worked to gain support for the Emerging Leaders in Science and Society (ELISS) program among graduate students across the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. Through a grassroots campaign, they won the right to have the ELISS program come to UNC. Once the program was awarded to UNC, Ross was one of three graduate students who built support for the program within the institution, acquired funding support from the university, and helped orchestrate the recruiting of the applicants and application review. Ross received his Doctor of Philosophy in Inorganic Chemistry from UNC in 2016 and his Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry from Kalamazoo College in 2011. Ross currently studies as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory. What You’ll Hear On This Episode of When Science Speaks [1:05] Mark introduces his guest, Dr. Ross Beattie. [5:45] Why developing science communication skills is so crucial. [7:20] What drew Ross to his work with science policy? [11:15] How to communicate your work to non-experts. [15:00] Should scientists get involved with politics? [17:15] How can participating in professional societies assist with science policy work? [19:40] Ross talks about his experience with the Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. [23:50] What does Ross want to do with the next step in his career? Connect with Ross Beattie Dr. Ross Beattie on LinkedIn Resources & People Mentioned Los Alamos National Laboratory Science Policy Advocacy Group American Association for the Advancement of Science American Chemical Society Dr. Jaqueline Kiplinger on LinkedIn National Postdoctoral Association University of North Carolina - Training Initiatives in Biomedical & Biological Sciences Communicating scientific work to non-experts When was the last time you had to explain your scientific work to a non-expert? Believe it or not, many scientists and postdocs find themselves so embedded in their peer and academic circles that they can go considerable lengths of time without having to describe their work to non-experts. If you had to explain your work to an audience of non-experts right now, do you think you would succeed? Would your audience be able to walk away with a basic understanding of what you covered? If you find yourself struggling to image that scenario going well, you aren’t alone. Thankfully, Ross Beattie took the time to explain two practical approaches that researchers like you can use to communicate your scientific work to a non-expert audience. What does grandma have to do with it? The first approach for communicating your scientific work to non-experts is called the “grandma test.” Call up your grandma or someone close to that demographic in your family and try to tell them about the work you are doing in the lab and why it matters. If they can’t understand you, it’s time to dig deeper and get to the heart of why your research matters and how it impacts the public. Once you can get that core message across to your grandma, you are headed in the right direction. The second approach that you can use to communicate your scientific work is practice. While not as exciting as the grandma test, practice does, in many cases, make perfect. Yes, you’ll be uncomfortable, and you’ll probably put your foot in your mouth or see eyes glaze over, but you’ll learn and adapt from what you encounter. Don’t give up or throw in the towel just because you weren’t able to connect with your first audience, learn from that encounter and make the next one better. In his experience, Ross has found that with each meeting he has or the talks he delivers, it only bolsters his confidence and his ability to communicate, especially with non-expert audiences. To hear more of Ross’ helpful insights on the topic of science communication and other subjects, make sure to listen to his full conversation with Mark on this episode of When Science Speaks. Connect With Mark and When Science Speaks http://WhenScienceSpeaks.com https://bayerstrategic.com/ On Twitter: https://twitter.com/BayerStrategic On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Bayer-Strategic-Consulting-206102993131329 On YouTube: http://bit.ly/BSConTV On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markdanielbayer/ On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bayerstrategic/ On Medium: https://medium.com/@markbayer17 Subscribe to When Science Speaks on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher
Unlike most 11-year olds, when Corie Walsh was still a little girl she decided she wanted to become an aid worker. Flash forward a dozen years, and today she's much closer to achieving her dream. But when she was still in high school, Corie thought her professional dreams were unraveling. She was rejected from 9 of the 12 colleges to which she applied. One of them included her top school -- Georgetown University. Instead, Corie ended up going to Colorado State where she worked her butt off her freshman year and got a 4.0 which she used to transfer to the University of North Carolina (UNC) in Chapel Hill as a sophomore. While at UNC Corie continued to work her butt off and double majored in Peace, War and Defense as well as Global Studies. The post 14: How to Thrive If You’re Rejected From Your Top College Choices w/ Corie Walsh, Mercy Corps appeared first on Time4Coffee.
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On today’s episode, we’ll be discussing your health with Dr. Spencer Nadolsky. Dr. Nadolsky will also answer some questions from our listeners about blood work that will really help you understand the principles as well as the risk factors when it comes to heart disease, diabetes and systemic inflammation Listen Now! Brief Bio: Dr. Spencer Nadolsky, DO, is a practicing board-certified family medicine physician. After a successful athletic career at University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, he enrolled in medical school at Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine in Blacksburg. He aspired to change the world of medicine by pushing lifestyle before drugs (when possible). Lifting, eating, laughter, and sleeping are his current first-line medicines for whatever ails patients. "Although, those don't cure pneumonia, unfortunately," he told MedPage Today. During his time as an UNC Tar Heel, Nadolsky was ranked in the nation's top four heavyweight division wrestlers. Nadolsky said he owes much of his success to nutrition, exercise science, and, of course, hard work. His goal is to use what he learned as an athlete and apply it to his patients to help them get as healthy as possible using lifestyle as medicine. He now practices in the Norfolk, Va., area. In this episode, you'll learn: Why Spencer isn’t your average doctor (04:14) What is metabolic health (09:18) What is your waistline telling you about your health (11:46) Understanding your cholesterol numbers (13:03) 7 Ways to boost your metabolism (09:35) The link between diabetes and cardiovascular disease (19:21) How high blood pressure and stress damages arteries (21:56) How to find the right doctor (29:00) 5 reasons you are not seeing results (31:27) Listener’s Question: "I'm a follower of Mark Sisson and Dave Asprey regarding diet and exercise. I am 49 years old and in pretty darn good shape but I have a high total cholesterol number since I have become more of a healthy fat eater. Most recent was 260, should I be concerned? My HDL was 70; my cholesterol HDL ratio is 3.8. They didn't list my triglyceride number." Dr. Nadolsky’s Response: "When we look at some of these numbers in isolation it's easy to make blanket recommendations. I'll give a few different levels of how I would do this if he had some other health issues. If he is perfectly healthy and no other issues like insulin resistance and no blood pressure issues or a history of heart disease that number is on the higher side but not on the level where I would go, "Oh my God, you need to take a Statin or one of these other cholesterol medicines. It would be pretty high if you did have some other conditions like type 2 diabetes or some other risk factors. Age plays a role, smoking and blood pressure and stuff like that. So we take the whole patient and do all these calculations to see the risk but at a very healthy state of life, it's probably not too concerning but definitely something to ask your doctor about looking at your whole health. A lot of times these high-fat diets focus on a lot of butter and coconut oil and some of these in certain individuals can raise your cholesterol but a lot of the low carb people will say it's harmless and not a big deal but I would argue that it takes a long time to build atherosclerosis so a lot of these studies they don't show that. I would personally change the diet just a little bit to hopefully lower those levels but your HDL is very good and your total cholesterol is a little bit high but if you really want to check you can get what's called the high sensitivity c-reactive protein test which can show if you have some inflammation going on and that can risk stratifying a little bit more to basically say, hey this level is high and you're actually at a higher risk of having heart disease or things like. Or if it is low you could say maybe you're not as much at a risk. There is another thing called a calcium heart scan, coronary artery calcium score that you can get that also risk stratify you as well. It's hard to say in isolation it is on the higher level but if you are perfectly healthy in everything else in your life I wouldn't be jumping to medicine right away." Listener’s Question 2: “Why does the health care system demonize cholesterol and what roles come into play for optimal health?” Dr. Nadolsky’s Response: " I will try to defend other doctors by saying it’s a system failure. I think as family doctors specifically we have the broadest scope of medicine you could ever think of. We have to know pretty much a little bit of everything...but the system fails. If you have to see 20-30 people in a day and your cooperation is pushing you to see more and more patients to meet overheads...You get forced to read just brief guidelines and then the guidelines in your mind you're not following those even though these things are very brief. So, you not even following what we call evidence-based medicine because the guidelines are there and very good at discussing—you got to look at the totality of everything. But people don't even see it all what they see is a number and they have 5 minutes with a patient and they don't get to talk about lifestyle... And so you leave with a prescription because your cholesterol was a little bit elevated. I think more doctors should go back to their medical school training and understand it's not necessarily just the cholesterol there is also a difference between what we eat and the cholesterol circulating in our blood and what's carrying the cholesterol...It's an issue they look at from a population standpoint. If we can get everybody's cholesterol down you're going to save X many persons...It's a system failure I would say." Ted's Takeaway 1. Don't be your own doctor 2. Be a results oriented person - With all the nutrition and training approaches, are you getting results? This is a straight forward question to ask yourself. If your answer is no, then you need to try something else or perhaps you need to follow it correctly or have one on one coaching to get you the results you want to see. 3. Be careful where you get your information from - Evaluate the information you're getting and make sure you are buying into the principles behind what they do and not the marketing hype. Resources: Connect with Spencer: Thanks for Listening! Thanks so much for joining us again this week. Have some feedback you’d like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the top of the post. Check out my brand new video , where I’ll , you can learn the 7 fat loss strategies that will help you finally create that energetic, lean body you’ve always wanted. If you have any questions (or would like answers to hear previously submitted voicemail questions!), head on over to . Until next time! Ted
Special Guest: Angela Spears, Dream Living Coach March Madness: 2017 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Discussion Surprise teams and upsets: Surprise teams - Xavier and South Carolina Upsets - Kentucky (75) vs. North Carolina (73) Fans upset and rioted in streets. John Higgins, referee from game, getting death threats. Source: http://cbsprt.co/2no0658 Rekaya's bracket (77.6% accuracy) – predicts South Carolina and the University of North Carolina (UNC) in championship game; and UNC winning it all. Angela predicts Gonzaga and UNC in championship game; and UNC winning it all. March Madness: 2017 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament Rekaya's bracket (59% accuracy) Rekaya predicts University of Connecticut (UConn) will win the tournament. Angela predicts UConn will win the tournament. Women Coaching in NBA NBA commissioner Adam Silver told ESPN he believes there will be a female head coach in his league, and he wants it to happen "sooner rather than later." Women will be officiating in the NBA as early as next season. Source: http://es.pn/2nf8Eev NFL News Oakland Raiders are moving to Las Vegas in 2019. Source: http://cbsprt.co/2nnYeJC Join Black Girls Talk Sports (podcast) Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/BlackGirlsTalkSports/ Don't forget to share and subscribe this podcast. Thank you!
Dr. Andrew Reynolds is a Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. He is the director of the UNC LGBTQ Representation and Rights Research Initiative. His research and teaching focus on democratization, constitutional design, and electoral politics. He has worked for the United Nations, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, the UK Department for International Development, the US State Department, the National Democratic Institute, the International Republican Institute, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and the International Foundation for Election Systems. In this podcast, Dr. Reynolds discusses a paper he recently co-authored with Logan S. Casey, entitled “STANDING OUT Transgender and Gender Variant Candidates and Elected Officials Around the World.”
Carol Strohecker directs the Center for Design Innovation (CDI), a multi-campus, advanced-technology research center of the University of North Carolina (UNC) system. In this capacity she serves multiple roles, including Professor at Winston-Salem State University and Chief Research Officer of the UNC School of the Arts. She is also a co-Principal Investigator of the internationally expanding network for Sciences, Engineering, Arts, and Design (SEAD), created in 2011 through funding from the US National Science Foundation. Previously, Dr. Strohecker led the Everyday Learning research group at Media Lab Europe, the European research partner of the MIT Media Lab. Prior to joining MLE, she worked in the United States at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories and in the Human Interface Group of Sun Microsystems. Dr. Strohecker earned the PhD of Media Arts and Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991 and the Master of Science in Visual Studies from MIT in 1986. She has served MIT’s Program in Media Arts and Sciences as a Lecturer and as a Presidential Nominee on the MIT Corporation Visiting Committee. She continues to serve boards and advisory committees for the international research and design community. In addition to four US patents for her collaborative work in interactive media tools and methods, Dr. Strohecker’s awards include fellowships with the Artists Foundation of the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, the US National Endowment for the Arts, and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
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