泰隆·海耶斯在《纽约客》杂志上为科学真理而奋斗

《纽约客》现在刊登了一篇关于泰隆·海耶斯的精彩长篇报道,他是一位研究人员,领导了长达数十年的科学和政治斗争,反对使用莠去津,这是一种除草剂,他的研究强烈表明该除草剂会导致出生缺陷。

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《纽约客》现在刊登了一篇关于泰隆·海耶斯的精彩长篇报道,他是一位研究人员,领导了长达数十年的科学和政治斗争,反对使用莠去津,这是一种除草剂,他的研究强烈表明该除草剂会导致出生缺陷。 这篇文章精彩地回顾了海耶斯的教育和职业生涯、他对莠去津的研究发现,以及他与先正达公司(莠去津的生产商)对他发起的运动的斗争。

我喜欢这篇文章,因为它很好地例证了科学研究、企业和行业利益以及政府政策是如何结合在一起的。 这篇文章让我对科学家想要根据研究证据影响政策变革的局限性产生了疑问。 这篇文章还提出了行业研究中常见的偏见这一重大问题——根据已发表的莠去津研究的审计人员的说法,“研究中除草剂莠去津是否具有显著影响的唯一最佳预测因素是资金来源。”

文章中另一句最让我产生共鸣的引言来自戴维·迈克尔斯(David Michaels)的书,他是美国劳工部职业安全与健康管理局助理部长。“行业已经了解到,辩论科学比辩论政策更容易、更有效。” 先正达试图诋毁海耶斯的科学研究,甚至通过资助创建反对他的网站和文章来诋毁他个人(just do a google search!),这种策略反复出现。


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我认为,对于任何对政策和公共卫生、科学、工业和政府的交叉领域感兴趣的人来说,这篇文章都是必读的。 点击此处阅读,并收听下面泰隆·海耶斯精彩的科学说唱。 感谢 Katie Brauer 向我推荐这篇文章。

About Princess Ojiaku

Hey there! I'm a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin Madison in the Neuroscience and Public Policy program. I'm also a musician who played in two bands in North Carolina, one called Pink Flag and another called Deals. My personal passions are science, music, and cycling as transportation.

I got into science as a kid while tagging along and watching my mom do experiments in her lab. I found that while I loved science, I didn't want to be alone in an ivory tower, crunching data that few others would understand. I also noticed that many other people thought science was this scary and incomprehensible entity of obscurity. When I realized that there were people working to make science fun and accessible to everyone, I knew that this was exactly what I wanted to do. The two things I find the most immensely interesting and continually impressing are music and neuroscience, so these are the topics that I'll focus on in my blog. Philosophy and politics are my second loves, so I might pop in an occasional post on these topics as well. Ultimately I am here to share things that give me wonder. I hope that reading Science with Moxie gives you a bit of that wonder too.

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