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  1. Last 7 days
    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    3. 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.

  2. Nov 2022
    1. 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

  3. Nov 2021
    1. 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?

  4. Oct 2021
    1. 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?

    2. free website called Ysearch.org,

      was this search allowed?

    3. eroding privacy protections and broadening police power

      The con should use this

    4. 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

    5. 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?

    6. 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.

    7. 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?

    8. 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.

    9. 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.

    10. 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

    11. prosecutors would say only that they had used family tree searches to find relatives of the killer

      What did they actually do?

    12. 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

    13. 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

    1. 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

    2. 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

  5. Jul 2021
  6. Jul 2020
    1. becomes a blind stampede to get away from the source of torture. 

      Does LRAD do this?

  7. Jun 2020
    1. "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

    1. The listener cannot hang on to the subject until the object heaves into view three clauses later.

      keep it short

    1. 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?

    1. “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

    2. 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

    3. 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

    4. 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

    5. 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

    6. 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

    1. But rather than resolve tensions, it deepens them.

      can cause hatred for police – against

    2. Between 1990 and 1995, more than 60 deaths linked to this “non-lethal technology” were reported in the United States.

      thats good for against

    3. 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

    1. 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

    2. Gente sin razón included unbaptized Natives, slaves, and all “unac-culturated” persons.4

      fucked up

    3. Gente de razón in-cluded all Spaniards, criollos, and castas who were culturally Hispanic,

      ok....

    4. subject to curfews, formally banned from certain employment categories, and effectively barred from political office and landownership

      jessu crist ok

    5. peninsulares, men born in Spain, sat atop the colonial regime.

      white people on top, not surprise

    6. At the bottom of the casta system were Natives and Africans. Legally defined as minors,

      Bottom were people of color? hmmmm

    7. The priests also demanded that men and women live separately, unless married in the church.

      imposing their religion on others

    8. Men in robes led the expedition attended by w

      missionaries

  8. May 2020
    1. So what

      introduces his idea

    2. There is another

      asks questions that are not answered by professionals presently

    3. Such is th

      infection inside a family is "collateral damage"

    4. But as the work

      addresses concerns of what happens if infection passed within family

    5. Importantly

      ties in immunity to pandemic response

    6. Worse, I fear

      the health problems to our response to virus

    7. I am

      socio-economic tolls of the virus

    8. The clustering

      his solution

    9. This is

      introduces idea of his solution

    10. We have, to date

      links to US

    11. The data from

      begins tying in information that leads to his claim

    12. Immunity

      He opens and gives intro about what immunity is – important later

    13. Outbreaks tend

      background on pandemics

    14. As we battle

      begins to connect analogy to covid

    15. We routinely

      intro that starts w his analogy

    1. world gets any warmer we may have another billion people living within bombing-range of malarial mosquitoes

      will climate change increase mosquito range?

    2. anti-malarial drugs – which are either hugely expensive

      this could be important

    1. you can keep some in the laboratory and reintroduce them.

      That's an interesting idea

    2. “There is no visible end to this except a war against aegypti,

      eradication of the species may be only option

    3. 600,000 of them victims of malaria.

      Acc to Gates foundation

    1. 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

    2. eliminated the screwworm, an agricultural pest

      this didn't seem to cause ecological collapse

    3. insects evolve resistance to pesticides

      This is important – could be a reason to target the mosquito itself

    1. male gene dominant over the female one.

      what exactly does this mean?

    2. 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?

  9. Apr 2019
    1. 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?

    2. 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?