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NY Times article. "These days, the comments section of any engaging article is almost as necessary a read as the piece itself - if you want to know how insider experts received the article and how those outsiders processed the news"

"Part of the scientific enterprise is to disseminate the results of research to other scientists as well as to people outside of academia."

"Beginning in 1946, U.S. Public Health Service investigators in Guatemala, funded by the National Institutes of Health, engaged in immoral, unethical, and illegal experiments infecting victims with bacteria that cause sexually transmitted diseases, without the victims' informed consent. The U.S. has left the victims untreated and uncompensated to the present day."

An allied project (albeit on a larger scale) in Canada. "Reports on and live blogs of conferences, workshops, etc. in the various disciplines engaged in the humanistic and social study of science and technology."