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Dermatology has a problem with skin color
Susan Taylor of the Perelman School of Medicine co-authored “Dermatology for Skin of Color,” a textbook about treating skin conditions in people with darker skin tones. “We shouldn’t have to write separate textbooks—that information should be integrated into the quote-unquote standard textbooks,” she said.
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CNN fact checker Daniel Dale is a ‘firehose’ dousing Trump’s incendiary lies
Kathleen Hall Jamieson of the Annenberg Public Policy Center commented on Daniel Dale’s fact check of statements made by President Trump during a speech at the Republican National Convention. “Dale’s rapidly spoken summary and correction of distortions in the Trump acceptance speech was more likely to leave viewers impressed with Dale than it was to help viewers remember the corrections,” she said.
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GOP portrayal of urban mayhem doesn’t always match reality
David Abrams of the Law School warned that focusing on crime statistics over short periods of time, such as week-to-week rates, can be misleading. “If you look at a longer time horizon over 10 years, 20 years, 30 years. I mean, crime is down immensely from what it was in the ‘80s and ‘90s,” he said.
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'Without evidence': Once again, FDA expands use of COVID-19 treatment without research to back it up
Nuala Meyer of the Perelman School of Medicine said she was surprised by the FDA’s approval of remdesivir for patients hospitalized with COVID-19. "We always expect the FDA to base decisions on data and we do get concerned when we see decision-making that we can't find the data to support," she said.
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Bruce Arians questioned the effectiveness of protest. The union head responded with an example
Mary Frances Berry of the School of Arts & Sciences countered a statement by Tampa Bay Buccaneers Coach Bruce Arians in which he said protesting is ineffective. “Sure, it helps the cause of justice to choose a project and support it financially, as LeBron James and other athletes do,” Berry said. “But nonviolent protest is an essential ingredient of politics.”
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Elon Musk to show off working brain-hacking device
Ari Benjamin, a doctoral student in the School of Engineering and Applied Science, said the biggest stumbling block for brain-to-machine interface technology is the complexity of the human brain. "Once they have the recordings, Neuralink will need to decode them and will someday hit the barrier that is our lack of basic understanding of how the brain works, no matter how many neurons they record from,” he said. "Decoding goals and movement plans is hard when you don't understand the neural code in which those things are communicated."
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You’ve got 5 weeks left to be counted in the 2020 Census and shape America’s next decade
Terri Lipman and undergrad Jamie Chung of the School of Nursing spoke about how Philadelphia college students can participate in civic life. “I want my peers and colleagues to understand the importance and the ripple effects of our participation in the census,” Chung said.
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Black Lives Matter grows as movement while facing new challenges
Daniel Gillion of the School of Arts & Sciences commented on the increased prevalence of athletes using their platforms to speak out against police violence. “You’ve created an environment so whenever any incident of injustice or perceived injustice takes place, it’s going to be amplified,” he said.
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The old rules were dumb anyway
Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing spoke said rules that prevent nurses from working in other states without a new license are out of date. “We have the same technology in every state. Patients are the same. They have the same problems. Everybody has babies everywhere,” she said.
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Stop springing forward, say sleep experts pushing standard over daylight saving time
Philip Gehrman of the Perelman School of Medicine spoke about the negative health effects of daylight saving time. “Lots of people want to get rid of the switch,” he said. “Whether we stay on permanent daylight saving time or permanent standard time, I think it depends on who you ask and ultimately comes down to when do you want the daylight.”