Sexism in STEM: Don’t base conclusions on flawed data

Physician
January 16, 2015

Sexism is a major problem in education around sciences, technology and engineering. The first step in addressing this problem is awareness.

A new study suggests many men deny that sexism is a problem in STEM fields. A study in Psychology of Women Quarterly says that that among 423 respondents in an online forum, men were more likely to suggest sexism isn’t a problem even when confronted with evidence it is.

Wow, men are …

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Sexism in STEM: Don’t base conclusions on flawed data

Will the attempt to police HIV transmission be effective?

Conditions
October 18, 2013

At gay bathhouses in the Bay Area, monitors pop in on the “playroom” irregularly — “every 20 minutes, every 40 minutes, every hour,” one manager says, trying to make sure patrons are having sex safely.

“You put the condom on or get the hell out,” a monitor at one such club said, upon discovering a couple violating the rules.

William Woods and his colleagues talked to these bathhouse monitors, as well as …

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Will the attempt to police HIV transmission be effective?

After a Creutzfeldt-Jakob exposure, should patients be told?

Conditions
September 21, 2013

Recently we have learned that 15 patients in New England were exposed to a rare infection called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) when neurosurgical instruments contaminated with the infection were used in their care. Each had undergone a brain or spinal surgery in early 2013, and now their future was uncertain.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is caused by an infectious agent called a prion — as is “mad cow disease.” Originally discovered in the brain-eating Fore cannibals of Papua New …

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After a Creutzfeldt-Jakob exposure, should patients be told?