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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Tessa Cook of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on the results of a study exploring the use of artificial intelligence in detecting disease. “Perhaps the better conclusion is that in the narrow public body of work comparing A.I. to human physicians, AI is no worse than humans, but the data are sparse and it may be too soon to tell,” she said.
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Eugenia South of the Perelman School of Medicine weighed in on a study that linked the demolition of abandoned buildings in Detroit to a decline in gun violence, saying that additional factors may also have contributed to the drop. “Perhaps the areas that received demolitions has stronger city council advocacy, which would mean they likely had other benefits and services that could be responsible for violence reduction, not the demolitions themselves,” she said.
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“It’s very hard to sustain these kinds of protests,” said Jacques deLisle of the Law School of political unrest in Hong Kong. “There are some people who I think could be persuaded to back down or to at least give the government another chance if it looks like they really have made some concessions.”
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Chyke Doubeni of the Perelman School of Medicine commented on an uptick in colorectal cancer diagnoses in young people. “It is unknown whether screening for sporadic cases in a group with such low disease rate can result in a favorable balance of harms and benefits,” he said.
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Sarah Barringer Gordon of the Law School and the School of Arts and Sciences discussed calls for more information about possible Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett’s ties to People of Praise, a religious group that requires an oath of loyalty.
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School of Arts and Sciences doctoral candidate Kate Dorsch’s research on the tensions between UFO witnesses and scientists speaks to contemporary challenges to confirmation biases.
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Nina Strohminger of the Wharton School Is quoted about co-authoring a study that revealed that monastic Buddhists were most fearful of death, specifically self-annihilation.
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A study on whether Trump’s presidency has affected perception of the United States by David Reibstein and Suneal Bedi of the Wharton School is sited.
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Olivia Mitchell of the Wharton School comments on when Americans claim social security.
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Michael Horowitz of the School of Arts and Sciences says, "The approval to arm drones in Niger demonstrates the way drones are an increasingly normal part of the toolkit that countries use when confronting terrorist groups and insurgencies."