Blocking IL-23 May Keep HPV From Helping Cancer Grow
The most common cancer-causing strain of human papillomavirus, HPV16, can reprogram immune cells surrounding the tumor to help cancer grow, and new work in mice blocking this process helped…
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Epidemiologists Can Link Weedkillers To Your Prostate Cancer Even If You Were Never Exposed
A recent epidemiology paper links common weedkillers to prostate cancer and further claims four of them cause death.
5 Things Schools Can Do To Promote News Literacy
When it comes to news literacy, schools often emphasize fact-checking and hoax-spotting. But as I argue in my new book, schools must go deeper with how they teach the subject if they want to help…
What Stephen Hawking Meant To The "Abnormal".
Stephen W Hawking actually wrote me a letter in response to one I sent him (actually I think it was an email) while in hindsight it was very likely to have been written by a functionary for him or…