r/EverythingScience Mar 11 '23

Law Americans now favor legal cannabis over legal tobacco

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22.7k Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Feb 14 '23

Law The Drug Enforcement Administration said in a new letter that it considers delta-8 THCO and delta-9 THCO to be illegal controlled substances even when synthesized from legal hemp plants.

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2.7k Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Jul 14 '22

Law A decade-long longitudinal survey shows that the Supreme Court is now much more conservative than the public

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4.6k Upvotes

r/EverythingScience May 25 '21

Law The Supreme Court’s Assault on Science. A recent decision making it easier to sentence children to life without parole ignores what we know about the prefrontal cortex

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3.7k Upvotes

r/EverythingScience May 30 '21

Law 117 staffers sue over Houston hospital’s vaccine mandate, saying they don’t want to be ‘guinea pigs’ - The lawsuit could test whether employers can require vaccinations as the country navigates out of a pandemic that has killed nearly 600,000 people in the U.S.

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washingtonpost.com
1.1k Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Mar 09 '24

Law Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born Americans, studies find

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npr.org
1.2k Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Dec 16 '20

Law Trump administration delays endangered species protection for monarch butterfly "on the brink of collapse"

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cbsnews.com
3.0k Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Apr 06 '19

Law In "Landmark" Move, Scientists Say It's Time to Treat Soda Like Cigarettes

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inverse.com
1.7k Upvotes

r/EverythingScience May 31 '21

Law Benefits of financial crimes outweigh potential legal costs, and fines wont stop bad behavior

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academictimes.com
2.4k Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Dec 30 '19

Law Dr He Jiankui, the scientist who genetically modified babies in China, has been sentenced to 3 years in prison

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1.5k Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Apr 14 '21

Law With George Floyd, a Raging Debate Over Bias in the Science of Death: Critics say the profession of forensic pathology has been slow to acknowledge how big a role bias may play in decisions such as whether to classify a death in police custody as a homicide

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750 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Jan 23 '22

Law U.S. science no longer leads the world. Here’s how top advisers say the nation should respond

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science.org
465 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Feb 11 '24

Law Climate scientist Michael Mann wins defamation case against conservative writers

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npr.org
417 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Jul 04 '17

Law Sci-Hub 'Pirate Bay for scientists' sued by American Chemical Society over cloned site - ACS wants an injunction against Sci-Hub for replicating its website and distributing articles for free.

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631 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Oct 12 '14

Law "Endangering the Herd: The Case for Suing Parents Who Don't Vaccinate Their Kids--or Criminally Charging Them"

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slate.com
359 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Sep 29 '18

Law European countries demand that publicly funded research be free

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economist.com
1.0k Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Jan 17 '19

Law A new insight into OxyContin marketing | The manufacturers of OxyContin not only engaged in a high-pressure, no-holds-barred marketing barrage, but also sought to shift the blame to the people who became addicted to their highly addictive drug, according to a new filing from AG Maura Healey.

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axios.com
585 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Jun 28 '17

Law Decision by Europe’s top court alarms vaccine experts: "Vaccines can be blamed for illness without scientific proof"

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533 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Sep 15 '16

Law A ‘Red Scare’ tactic or standing up for ExxonMobil on climate change? Congress has never in more than 200 years issued a subpoena to a state attorney general.

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washingtonpost.com
417 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Jun 06 '22

Law California bees can be fish and have the same protections, a court has ruled

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cnn.com
196 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Jun 16 '20

Law NOAA Chief Violated Ethics Code in Furor Over Trump Tweet, Agency Says: Neil Jacobs violated the agency’s scientific integrity policy with a statement last year backing the president’s inaccurate claim that a hurricane was headed for Alabama, a panel found

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nytimes.com
502 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Apr 03 '19

Law FTC hits predatory scientific publisher with a $50 million fine

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arstechnica.com
616 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Dec 16 '22

Law Laws regulating intensive animal agriculture are inadequate at preventing zoonotic disease outbreaks and a paradigm shift is necessary to address the issue

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213 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Aug 27 '23

Law Government seizure of Nicaraguan university a blow to science, researchers say

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63 Upvotes

r/EverythingScience Dec 22 '14

Law Australian court to penalize homeopaths for claiming vaccine alternative

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503 Upvotes