In one of the darkest chapters in medical ethics, the United States government ran an experiment from the 1930s to the 1970s in which it withheld treatment and medical information from rural African-American men suffering from syphilis. The public uproar generated by the Tuskegee Syphilis Study eventually resulted in regulations restricting government-supported research testing […]
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Arctic sea ice extent sets another record
December 26th, 2015 Awake Goy
The extent of thirty percent concentration sea ice in the Arctic has reach 10 million km² in December for the first time since at least 2004. Shown sea ice extent values are therefore recommended to be used qualitatively in relation to ice extent values from other years shown in the figure. Source: Ocean and […]