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My worries are no longer behind me

Author(s) : Petsko, Gregory A
Description : The tragedy of colorectal cancer is that it is one of the most preventable of fatal diseases: regular screening has been shown to reduce colon cancer deaths.
Repository : Europe PubMed Central
Language(s) : English

Strange days

Author(s) : Petsko, Gregory A
Description : It's too bad that Al Gore who might be one of the few Democrats to be a good friend to science, who believes that reason, not faith or ideology, should decide issues, and who actually knows something about the world outside his own country, isn’t going to run for US president.
Repository : Europe PubMed Central
Language(s) : English

They fought the law and the law won

Author(s) : Petsko, Gregory A
Description : The new science geo-engineering doesn't try to alter a few corn plants; it aims to tinker with the entire planet, based on the notion that ultimately we can actively manipulate the planet to have any climate pattern we want. But there is no way we can ever assess all of the likely consequences.
Repository : Europe PubMed Central
Language(s) : English

What if Watson had said "Apes evolved from man"?

Author(s) : Petsko, Gregory A
Description : Our status as genome biologists gives us both ammunition and a powerful line of attack when we are confronted with ignorance, prejudice, and bigotry.
Repository : Europe PubMed Central
Language(s) : English

Good chemistry

Author(s) : Petsko, Gregory A
Description : The subject matter in chemistry courses reflects almost nothing of the issues that chemists are interested in. It is important to formulate a set of topics - and a Medical College Admissions Test reflecting them - that would leave chemistry departments no choice but to change their teaching.
Repository : Europe PubMed Central
Language(s) : English

Medicine man

Author(s) : Petsko, Gregory A
Description : It becomes imperative that our doctors bring to the practice of medicine a true scientific perspective; it may be just as important that those of us doing biomedical research try to learn more of what doctors know.
Repository : Europe PubMed Central
Language(s) : English

The story they missed

Author(s) : Petsko, Gregory A
Description : The closer we get to post-educational employment, the smaller the percentage of women at every stage. Where do all the talented and accomplished women go?
Repository : Europe PubMed Central
Language(s) : English

The right to be wrong

Author(s) : Petsko, Gregory A
Description : Nothing holds science back longer than clinging to what should not be clung to, and all too often it’s fear, fear of the consequences of having made a mistake, that keeps ideas around long past their expiration date.
Repository : Europe PubMed Central
Language(s) : English

The next epidemic

Author(s) : Petsko, Gregory A
Description : We are witnessing an explosion of people well past their reproductive years. Older, non-reproducing organisms consume resources that might better serve their younger. And chief among these resources is medical care.
Repository : Europe PubMed Central
Language(s) : English

The ninth wave

Author(s) : Petsko, Gregory A
Description : New, all-pervading technologies, such as the web and genomics, are like the 'ninth waves' of surfboard riders, washing over our culture with sudden, transforming power. The danger is that quality is reduced as we deal with the flood of data.
Repository : Europe PubMed Central
Language(s) : English

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