Interestingly, participants perceived the photos of Black individuals as more trustworthy than the photos of White individuals in the explicit ratings
Why is this? Could it be a conscious effort by the participants to not seem racist? Explicit ratings involve explicit bias after all – it is not subconscious and immediate, but rather conscious and requires thought.
not when only women participants were included in the analysis
This seems to suggest that pro-White attitude correlates positively with pro-men attitude. This correlation disappears when considering only women participants, which is consistent with our understanding of correlations with racial bias. Good news: this seems to suggest that being more aware of your implicit biases and working to not make snap decisions based on race can also mean becoming less biased against other races / genders, along with becoming less biased for the white race.
more likely to favour White individuals over Black individuals
Interesting finding and wording – Pro-White implicit attitudes leads to higher likeliness to favor whites over blacks. This isn't surprising. However, according to other similar studies, it seems simply having pro-White implicit bias directly correlated to having anti-Black implicit bias (economic game & anger in faces).
Taken together, study seems to suggest that simply having pro-White attitudes directly lead to having anti-Black attitudes. Not clear that one directly means the other, but it suggests the common trend is that if you have pro-White attitudes, you will therefore have anti-Black attitudes. In order to not have anti-Black attitudes, you must not have pro-White attitudes either.
Even the investigation brochure had in its text mentioned caution about possibility of cytokine release syndrome.
they should have expected and prepared for cytokine storm
If you go into a shop and still see big bags and jars of cannabis on the shelves instead of individually packaged stuff, there’s a good chance that it’s not a legal shop.
Why are legal dispensaries forced to sell pre-packaged cannabis? Why can't they measure the cannabis out in front of you?
violated MyHeritage’s privacy policies
Con argument! What are the ethical implications of this? How to turn this point into a reason data should have been thrown out?
free website called Ysearch.org,
was this search allowed?
eroding privacy protections and broadening police power
The con should use this
wave of efforts by other cold-case teams across the U.S. to use similar means to identify violent criminals.
This could be a good thing! yes, power can be abused, but this has the potential to catch cases that have long gone cold
It is possible that the civilian geneticist thought she was not violating our terms of service
did it actually violate the terms of service? if so, what was violated? Using the service for an investigation?
law enforcement had access to the database.
Con can argue this is a slippery slope/unethical...not sure how, but: Argue that this service is not a necessity or human need, it is down to the autonomy of the customer if they want to use the service, and if they do, they have informed consent that law enforcement has access.
warned that it “may be required” to release personal information in response to a “lawful request by public authorities.”
Did public authorities legally request the information? Why didn't CEO know the case was being investigated? On what grounds did the CEO give data to authorities?
Both companies denied involvement at the time.
Why? Can't really defend them, can only say they denied involvement to protect prosecution's case and minimize the chance defense can keep GSK out of jail.
genetic material from the rape kit was first sent to FamilyTreeDNA, which created a DNA profile and allowed law enforcement to set up a fake account to search for matching customers.
This would be like impersonating your friend to learn about his ancestry. Sure, impersonation is wrong, but look at the outcome and possible benefits. Look at it through the lens of beneficence.
rape kit to develop a fresh DNA profile that was then uploaded to GEDmatch
No wrongdoing here – its open-source, so anyone can put anything basically No moral problems either (unless motive wtv), simply adding information to a collaborative database
prosecutors would say only that they had used family tree searches to find relatives of the killer
What did they actually do?
broader and more invasive, conducted without a warrant, and appeared to violate the privacy policy of at least one DNA company.
Con side should use this
more extensive than previously disclosed and involved covert searches of private DNA housed by two for-profit companies despite privacy policies
This is the sus part – this is where con arguments will come from
why would the pharmaceutical companies continue this expensive practice?
This whole section is huge and is of great consideration when it comes to transparency between physicians and pharma companies
it is certainly fair and appropriate for the company that will profit from the sales of its drugs to pay for the clinical trial studies.
Publicly funded research on drugs is rare bc it's expensive to run those studies – therefore, it makes sense pharma companies run their own studies
3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA) reductase,
What does this reductase do?
becomes a blind stampede to get away from the source of torture.
Does LRAD do this?
"Seeing a child or an adult being hit by a baton and blood coming out of their body or head or whatever is a very arresting image and often very detrimental to the attempts of the police force or military or whoever is trying to control a certain aspect of society," says Heys.
LRAD better for public police relations
The listener cannot hang on to the subject until the object heaves into view three clauses later.
keep it short
a college student lost his right eye after police allegedly shot a tear gas canister at his face during a protest in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Well that's definitely for Against... does this classify as misuse?
“at close range, in enclosed spaces, in large quantities, fired directly at people, used [it] offensively as a weapon and in conjunction with rubber-coated bullets as a force multiplier.”
Shows misuse of the weapon today; could be used in a transition paragraph between For and Proposal
The technology for deploying tear gas is advancing far more quickly than scientists’ understanding of the impacts
This is a good piece of information to wrap up the section with
Tear gas residue can seep into porous materials like furniture, mattresses, clothing, carpet and even hardwood floors, and continue to irritate the mucous membranes of anyone residing in or visiting the property long after the incident.
holy shit lots of collateral damage for a non-lethal weapon that make it undesirable to use
Instead of reserving it for the most extreme situations, “it’s more like fumigating and flushing people out,” he said. “Tear gas has become a 1st line response, not a last resort,” he added in an email.
Tear gas has been used incorrectly – less trust between the people and police, worsen relationships
But the tear gas found her later that evening, inside her own house; as police unleashed it on protesters in her predominantly black neighborhood
Can seep into unwatned places like homes, against
People stomped over her as they scrambled away.
This could be potentially dangerous – trampling may contribute to more deaths as people try to get away
But rather than resolve tensions, it deepens them.
can cause hatred for police – against
Between 1990 and 1995, more than 60 deaths linked to this “non-lethal technology” were reported in the United States.
thats good for against
The tear gases appear to be admirably suited to the purpose of isolating the individual from the mob spirit … he is thrown into a condition in which he can think of nothing but relieving his own distress.
This is a great quote for the "for" side
Native men, women, and children doing manual labor, writes historian David Torres-Rouff, were the “material basis of the [colonists’] elite economic and so-cial status.”
no surprise there oops
Gente sin razón included unbaptized Natives, slaves, and all “unac-culturated” persons.4
fucked up
Gente de razón in-cluded all Spaniards, criollos, and castas who were culturally Hispanic,
ok....
subject to curfews, formally banned from certain employment categories, and effectively barred from political office and landownership
jessu crist ok
peninsulares, men born in Spain, sat atop the colonial regime.
white people on top, not surprise
At the bottom of the casta system were Natives and Africans. Legally defined as minors,
Bottom were people of color? hmmmm
The priests also demanded that men and women live separately, unless married in the church.
imposing their religion on others
Men in robes led the expedition attended by w
missionaries
So what
introduces his idea
There is another
asks questions that are not answered by professionals presently
Such is th
infection inside a family is "collateral damage"
But as the work
addresses concerns of what happens if infection passed within family
Importantly
ties in immunity to pandemic response
Worse, I fear
the health problems to our response to virus
I am
socio-economic tolls of the virus
The clustering
his solution
This is
introduces idea of his solution
We have, to date
links to US
The data from
begins tying in information that leads to his claim
Immunity
He opens and gives intro about what immunity is – important later
Outbreaks tend
background on pandemics
As we battle
begins to connect analogy to covid
We routinely
intro that starts w his analogy
climate change and accelerating urbanization will create new mosquito habitats.
as the climate warms, mosquitos could become a massive problem for the US
world gets any warmer we may have another billion people living within bombing-range of malarial mosquitoes
will climate change increase mosquito range?
anti-malarial drugs – which are either hugely expensive
this could be important
Nations may need to pay for:
a cost that some nations may not be able to afford
you can keep some in the laboratory and reintroduce them.
That's an interesting idea
“There is no visible end to this except a war against aegypti,
eradication of the species may be only option
600,000 of them victims of malaria.
Acc to Gates foundation
DRC continues to experience challenges in access to preventive and curative malaria interventions
poses an issue to traditional anti-malaria campaigns
Even the great conservationist E.O. Wilson, the world’s most famous entomologist, has said he wouldn’t mourn A. gambiae.
Looks like they won't cause ecological collapse
eliminated the screwworm, an agricultural pest
this didn't seem to cause ecological collapse
insects evolve resistance to pesticides
This is important – could be a reason to target the mosquito itself
male gene dominant over the female one.
what exactly does this mean?
they could be used to dramatically reduce the size of a mosquito population altogether.
what are the ecological impacts to wiping out all the mosquitoes?
Early in our visit, while walking down a littered and graffiti-covered alley not 100 feet from Insite the “safe injection” facility, I witnessed two users actively shooting up and one was still mid-dose when a Vancouver Police Department cruiser rolled through.
people doing drugs outside the facility?
Early in our visit, while walking down a littered and graffiti-covered alley not 100 feet from Insite the “safe injection” facility, I witnessed two users actively shooting up and one was still mid-dose when a Vancouver Police Department cruiser rolled through.
people doing drugs outside the facility?