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From:Human Rights (Vol. 46, Issue 4)Former Michigan Governor Rick Snyder and eight other state government officials are facing criminal charges for their alleged roles in the disastrous Flint, Michigan, drinking water crisis of roughly seven years ago....
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From:Human Rights (Vol. 46, Issue 4)When people hunger for direction, they seek voices that speak the facts with authority and clarity. For the last year, they haven't gotten that. Instead, a chorus of talking heads spouting conflicting messages has...
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From:Human Rights (Vol. 46, Issue 4)Science is a public good. This has long been the American vision, from Benjamin Franklin's hope that the people, armed with knowledge, could govern effectively, to Abraham Lincoln's belief that the power of innovation...
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From:Human Rights (Vol. 46, Issue 4)Flint, Michigan, is ground zero for the four major crises that have afflicted the nation over the past year. In Flint, a catastrophic public health crisis collided with an economic downturn, systemic racism, and a...
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From:Human Rights (Vol. 46, Issue 4)The United States is the only developed country where children are routinely killed by a gun. They have been killed while doing the most normal activities of childhood: running on a playground, jumping on a bed,...
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From:Human Rights (Vol. 46, Issue 4)He is a man, an ordinary man, who is being asked to play God, and he is being punished because he cannot be God. And that is a terrible situation to be in. To be the lightning rod for all of us. But he is there and he...
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From:Human Rights (Vol. 46, Issue 4)In the late 1990s, I can remember hearing about "El Nino" and learning more about global warming from climate change advocate, Al Gore. Since then, Americans have made strides to become "human rights/social...
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From:Human Rights (Vol. 46, Issue 4)Medical research has long been performed on human volunteers who risk their own well-being for society's greater good. Safeguarding human rights and upholding ethical standards are fundamental to sound medical research....
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From:Human Rights (Vol. 46, Issue 4)There is always a political element to public health decisions or, more broadly, public policy decisions that draw on science. Such decisions involve not only scientific data but also debates about how to allocate...
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From:Human Rights (Vol. 46, Issue 4)The COVID-19 pandemic is not the first global health crisis of our lifetimes, and it won't be the last. As habitat loss forces wildlife and humans to live together, pathogenic crossovers will rise. Insect-borne diseases,...
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From:Human Rights (Vol. 46, Issue 4)Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world," stated Louis Pasteur, the French chemist and microbiologist known for his discoveries on, among other...