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XTR Joins Oscar Contender ‘Y Vân: The Lost Sounds of Saigon,’ Award-Winning Documentary About “The Quincy Jones of Saigon”
EXCLUSIVE: Global nonfiction entertainment studio XTR is coming on board Y Vân: The Lost Sounds of Saigon as the award-winning documentary ramps up its campaign for Oscar recognition. That bid was str...
Giannis Antetokounmpo ‘speechless’ after Doc Rivers questioned his IQ
After Doc Rivers questioned his IQ, Giannis Antetokounmpo is questioning why his former head coach slandered him. Last week, Rivers went on The Bill Simmons Podcast and claimed Antetokounmpo “doesn’t have a super-high IQ” while also alleging the former NBA MVP was difficult to coach. After leading the Miami Heat to a 114-108 victory over…
Hulu's Latest True Crime Docuseries 'The Well' Revisits the Speed Freak Killers
Docuseries "The Well" reopens an investigation into more than 200 unsolved murders potentially linked to the Speed Freak Killers
Hulu Launches True-Crime Docuseries ‘The Well’ From Fox Entertainment Studios
Hulu is leaning further into true-crime with its latest docuseries. The streamer has launched six-part series The Well, which explores the investigators reopening the case of the Speed Freak Killers. ...
Hulu Launches True-Crime Docuseries ‘The Well’
The streamer has launched six-part series The Well, which explores the investigators reopening the case of the Speed Freak Killers.
Kustom Entertainment Extends TFL Acquisition Deadline to December 18
Kustom Entertainment amended its Unit Purchase Agreement for the proposed acquisition involving TFL and its sellers, extending the deadline to complete the transaction from October 15 to December 18, 2026. If the deal does not close by December 18, the company will pay the sellers' reasonable, docu…
Undergraduate research shapes this future physician
Senior Suhan Asaigoli is exploring how artificial intelligence can help doctors detect disease earlier and make faster decisions after a stroke.
Giannis Antetokounmpo fires back at Doc Rivers’ ‘uncoachable’ comments
Antetokounmpo isn't holding back after his former coach's remarks.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT PARTNERS WITH STOP & SHOP TO PROMOTE HOLIDAY FOOD SAFETY
As residents prepare to celebrate the upcoming holidays with family and friends, the City of Middletown Health Department is teaming up with Stop & Shop to share vital food safety tips to prevent
The cost of healthcare is hitting America where it hurts: The wallet
Overall U.S. healthcare costs rose from $3 trillion in 2014 to $5.3 trillion in 2024, forcing people to forgo health insurance, ration medications, cut back on doctor visits and put off health procedures. It's not just the poor or uninsured, but "an all-of-us issue” now.
Potential impacts Democratic health care proposals on employer-sponsored health care
Summary: Democratic state and federal wins in the midterm elections could lead to Medicaid expansion in some states, and focuses attention on the House Democrats’ memo on health care priorities in the new Congress. Few of these proposals are likely to become law before 2029, but they could form the foundation for Democratic health care reform efforts after the 2028 Presidential election. Portion of total newly eligible for Medicaid if non-expansion states expanded Source: Cervantes, S et al How Many Uninsured Are in the Coverage Gap and How Many Could be Eligible if All States Adopted the Medicaid Expansion? KFF, July 27, 2026 It’s been almost a week since the midterm elections, and the Democrats will have large majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, although not large enough to overcome Senate filibusters or Presidential vetoes. I reviewed some of what I thought these midterm results could mean in a post last week. In retrospect, I might have understated the elections’ impact on health care due to changes in governorship and majorities in many state legislatures. A Democratic trifecta (governorship and both houses) could mean expansion of Medicaid in Wisconsin, and a Democratic governor and House in Texas and Georgia could increase pressure in both states to expand Medicaid. That’s especially important, because Texas currently represents almost half of those who would be newly eligible for insurance from Medicaid expansions. Medicaid expansions matter to employers because they have been shown to decrease the risk of closure of rural hospitals and support workers’ ability to stay employed and productive. The House Democrats’ Cost of Living Healthcare Working Group published an 84-page memo in September with recommendations for the first hundred hours, the first hundred days, and the first year. The midterm results make this document more important. Here’s a review of what some of these recommendations could mean for employer-sponsored health insurance. Elements that could lower employer health care spending Restore the expanded advance premium tax credit for ACA plans. This could bring healthier enrollees back to the marketplace plans, which would improve the risk status of these plans and decrease the rate of uninsurance. Fewer people with insurance puts higher pressures on provider rates of employer plans. More stable ACA plans could encourage employers to consider transitioning from employer-sponsored plans to ICHRA/Choice, providing a fund for employers to purchase their own insurance on an exchange. Repeal Medicaid work requirements and other administrative rules of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act which as written will lead to a large increase in the uninsured rate. Fewer people with insurance leads to more pressures from hospitals for commercial rate increases. Extend Inflation Reduction Act negotiated drug prices to commercial health plans. These are now only applicable to Medicare Parts D (outpatient drugs) and B (drugs administered by providers. The Medicare negotiated prices are lower than net prices negotiated by PBMs. Hospital price limits. Some of the Democratic House proposals would institute site neutral payment and limit outlier hospital prices to 200% of Medicare. The average commercial health plan pays about 247% Medicare rates for inpatient hospital care, and many commercial health plans currently pay over 300% of Medicare for hospital services. PBM regulations. The proposals would mandate more transparency and prevent PBMs from paying subsidiaries more than market rates. Antitrust enforcement. The plan would break up vertically integrated health care monopolies which could lower prices through competition. Ban on non-compete contractual clauses could increase competition by increasing flexibility and supply of clinicians, although it could also increase physician leverage and lead to higher wages which could raise prices. Lower the Medicare eligibility age, which could take older, more expensive, workers off employer sponsored plans. Create a Medi-Kids plan to insure all children and potentially young adults up to age 26. These plan members have low non-preventive utilization and cost less per person than older plan members, but removing children from employer plans would decrease volatility because a few children have very high medical costs. Elements that could increase employer spending (in many instances for high value services) Mandate three primary care and three mental health visits without cost sharing Eliminate cost sharing for mental health care and substance use care during pregnancy and in the year after delivery Require coverage of infertility services Cap cost sharing for insulin, epipen and respiratory inhalers Count copay coupons and assistance toward member deductibles and cost sharing Cap total health care costs (premium and out-of-pocket costs) at 8% of household income Leave a comment Elements that could improve the market Increased price transparency Tightening enforcement of short-term plans, fixed indemnity plans, and cost-sharing ministries. These skimpy health plans skim off healthier people, leaving sicker people on marketplace exchanges and employer-sponsored health plans. Here’s a past post on the perils of cheap insurance. Most of these proposals are likely not to become law in the next two years, but could form the foundation of a Democratic proposal for health care reform in 2029 and beyond. The document does not provide cost estimates for these proposals. Share Thanks for reading! If you found this useful, please share, subscribe, like, and restack. You can find previous posts at this link. Views expressed in Employer Coverage are purely my own. Thanks for reading Employer Coverage ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribe
See the 20 highest-grossing concert films of all time
While most of the documentaries premiered between 2008 and 2013, the highest grossing documentary was released in 2023.
Amazon Doubles Down on Melania Trump With New TV Series
Amazon is expanding its Melania Trump project despite the film’s box office falling short of its reported costs.
Rams Get Crushing Puka Nacua Injury Update From Sports Doctor
The Los Angeles Rams moved above .500 with a 20-13 win over the Washington Commanders on Sunday. However, the victory came at a cost.All-Pro wide receiver Puka Nacua hurt his knee on the Rams’ final offensive snap of the game and is set to undergo an MRI on Monday, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter and […] The post Rams Get Crushing Puka Nacua Injury Update From Sports Doctor appeared first on HEAVY.
Two years after Yale Health adopted AI helpers, Yalies are on the fence
The campus health clinic incorporated an artificial intelligence-powered tool into clinical visits in 2024. Yale students expressed varying levels of comfort with the technology, which is intended to reduce the providers’ workload when documenting visits.
When a Young Person’s Mental Health Starts to Shift
The most important people in a young person’s life are often the ones who know them best: parents, family, teachers, doctors and other trusted adults. They are also generally the first to notice when…
More than 80% of ‘pro-science’ candidates were swept into office. Will they have a policy impact?
The midterms sent an unusual wave of doctors and scientists into office, and many shared the same backer: the 314 Action Fund, a political action
Court docs suggest mental health may have played role in fatal stabbing of Brooklyn jogger
Marquette graduate students bring science to life for middle school students through MUSE program
For middle school students, science can sometimes feel like a collection of facts in a textbook. Through the Marquette University Science Exchange Program (MUSE), two Marquette University doctoral students are helping students see science as something they can explore, question and experience for themselves. Led by Zebadiah (Zeb) Boos and Wanda Sihanath, doctoral students in…
UI Health, Sport, and Human Physiology program ranked fifth nationally
The University of Iowa’s Health, Sport, and Human Physiology doctoral program has earned national recognition, ranking fifth among 39 kinesiology doctoral programs across the country. Gary Pierce, the department’s executive officer, said the ranking was determined using data from 2023-25. The evaluation considered two primary categories: faculty productivity, which accounted for two-thirds of the overall...
Newsmakers: Dartmouth Health doctor appointed president of A...
This week’s Newsmakers highlights leadership appointments, professional certifications and expanded health care and education services across New Hampshire and ...
Colorado Mountain College Breckenridge to screen documentary about behavioral health careers
On Thursday, Nov. 12, Colorado Mountain College Breckenridge will be hosting a free showing of “Homegrown Healing Opportunity Now,” a new documentary exploring career opportunities in Colorado’s behavioral health field. The event will run from...
Will China’s slow and steady moon landing plan be a safer bet than the US’?
China’s planned trial run ahead of its crewed moon landing will see the Lanyue lander and Mengzhou spacecraft dock in lunar orbit.
A Bizarre Relationship Between a Bull and Male Donkey Is Confusing Scientists
Researchers in Ethiopia documented an unusual sexual bond between a bull and male donkey, including 51 mountings over two weeks.
Colorado’s Doctors Care helps those who might fall through medical system’s cracks
Doctors Care’s mission is to provide medical care and education to Coloradans who may slip through the cracks of today’s complex and expensive health care system.
Cisco's $283 million Israel business puts its military ties under scrutiny
Internal documents reveal how Cisco rushed engineers to Israeli military intelligence facilities after technical failures threatened a $67 million business relationship. The company's deep involvement in defense and intelligence infrastructure has also triggered employee protests and a shareholder challenge over its human-rights policies.
UTEP study links duck releases to lower genetic health
A study led by researchers at the University of Texas at El Paso has documented for the first time in North America how more than a century of releasing domesticated ducks has altered the genetic m…
CPU-Z Data Shows 16 GB RAM Gaining Ground While 32 GB and 64 GB RAM Shares Shrink
PCs with 32 GB and 64 GB of RAM are becoming less common, at least in the latest CPU-Z Validator statistics. According to Doc TB, one of the developers behind CPU-Z, this is the first time RAM capacity on PCs has declined year over year. 32 GB is still the most popular configuration at 37.2% of...
Many Georgians face health care premium sticker shock
For 13 years, hair stylist and salon owner Khadijah Baynes has relied on faith to navigate the ups and downs of entrepreneurship.
Kaweah Health pushes for more OBs - The Sun-Gazette Newspaper
Kaweah Health works to recruit more obstetricians and expand maternity care services during nationwide doctor shortage
A promising new medicine against heart disease fails unexpectedly
Doctors expected an experimental drug that lowers a common risk factor for heart attacks would save patients' lives. The medicine made no difference.
Ramstad: This St. Paul doctor opened a medical clinic. She doesn’t take insurance.
After fighting breast cancer, Dr. Michelle Chestovich opened a clinic for women at menopause. She has more time with patients and zero overhead dealing with insurers.
Oakwood native hopes farm series hits home
Oakwood native Shannon Green of Los Angeles is a producer on the sequel series to the award-winning documentary film "The Biggest Little Farm" coming out this month on YouTube.
What Did CVS Health’s Quarter Change For Its Stock?
For questions about this article or underlying research, email help@trefis.com.On November 4, CVS Health (CVS) reported its fiscal Q3 2026 results. The stock fell 12.5% that day, while the S&P 500 rose 1.6%.
Looking for a health insurance plan? Highmark Direct stores can help
Fall is the time to choose health coverage for the coming year. Sorting through the options can be daunting. Consumers may need to compare premiums, confirm that doctors are in-network and prescription drugs are covered, and understand access to care while traveling. Highmark Direct stores help consumers navigate those decisions
Don’t believe your eyes. Sacramento’s newest museum is full of mind-bending illusions
Gravity-defying rooms, dizzying tunnels and optical tricks await at the new Museum of Illusions in Sacramento’s DOCO. Take a look inside.
UVA Health sleep doctor shares tips for adjusting after time change
A UVA Health sleep doctor said a consistent bedtime and wake time are the first step in adjusting to the time change
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Heidi Health announces 18% reduction of global workforce
Heidi Health CEO and Cofounder Tom Kelly made the announcement a day after two of the company's cofounders announced their resignations.
Ex-NBA player Ed Davis to plead guilty in sports betting case
Former NBA player Ed Davis is expected to change his plea to guilty in his federal sport betting case, according a court docket entry filed on Friday.
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy released from hospital after stroke
The 53-year-old Democrat said in a statement Friday that doctors are “encouraged by the progress” he’s made so far.
Chris Murphy's office issues health update after senator's stroke
The Connecticut Democrat will miss the next few weeks of Senate votes after experiencing a small brain bleed. His doctor expects a "full recovery."
WashU Student Selected for Anthropic AI for Science Program
Xu Ziqi Xu, a doctoral student in computer science and engineering at WashU McKelvey Engineering, has been selected for Anthropic's AI for Science
First Fat Bear Week winner remembered in short film
Beloved by millions, ‘Love Letters to Otis’ chronicles the life of this very zen brown bear.
In brief: Putting the squeeze on gene-editing techniques
Xiaojun “Lance” Lian, associate professor of biomedical engineering and of biology at Penn State, alongside biomedical engineering doctoral candidate Tahir Haideri contributed to a paper recently published in Matter. The research, led by scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), introduced a physical system that squeezes cells, temporarily loosening the DNA inside and making space for gene-editing tools to reach the target genes. The team said this is an improvement upon previous approaches because it enables a better yield of cell reprogramming, when researchers can coax one cell type to turn into another cell type. Lian and Haideri supported the research by guiding the molecular engineering of reprogramming cells from one type to another, building on their prior work improving how gene-editing tools are delivered to the cell’s genetic material. Editor’s note: The full article describing this work can be found on the UCLA news site.
UVA Health receives nearly $4 million to bring care closer to rural patients
The grant will help doctors remotely monitor patients with high-risk pregnancies, diabetes, epilepsy and other conditions.
What Teladoc Health Bulls Got Right
Teladoc Health spent the past year juggling a Walmart virtual care rollout, an expanding AI toolset like SoloVitals and SoloScribe, and a sharp reset in BetterHelp’s cash-pay demand that even drew securities law firms into the story. For Teladoc Health shareholders, the return over the past year was 23.5%, including dividends. If you were deciding whether to buy on 5 November 2025, what exactly would you have needed to believe about chronic care, BetterHelp and legal risk to hold through all...
Empiricists strike back: Midterms propel scientists and physicians to Capitol Hill
Undoing the White House’s war on science won’t be easy. Having new Democratic scientists and doctors in Congress will be a big help.
From a ship frozen into Arctic ice, a warning to world leaders: Trust the science
Drifting through the polar darkness, a team of scientists is documenting a rapidly changing Arctic. As sea ice retreats and oil tankers move in, a conversation with the UN chief reveals why the battle for climate science matters far beyond the North Pole.
CHEMM: Revenue rose 28% and EBITDA 46% as instruments and life science-led demand accelerated
Q1 revenue rose 28% YoY and EBITDA 46%, with a 63% EBITDA margin. Growth was strongest in instruments and the life science, cell and gene therapy, and bioprocessing business area; FY guidance was maintained at DKK 570–605m revenue and DKK 335–360m EBITDA.Original document: ChemoMetec A/S [CHEMM] Sl…
Spin Doctors - College of Arts and Sciences
Yin Lyu explores how spin-based technologies could power faster, more efficient computers of the future.
The 1 Ingredient This GI Doc Adds to Her Coffee Every Morning To Boost Fiber Intake
In TODAY.com’s Expert Tip of the Day, a gastroenterologist reveals her go-to strategy for people who struggle to get enough fiber from their diet.
Southeast Asia shouldn’t copy the U.S. healthcare model, says Walgreens Boots Alliance’s APAC head: ‘It saves your life, but it’s not very healthy’
Southeast Asia is building out its systems of care amid rising healthcare costs and a shortage of specialist doctors.
Armstrong welcomes HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to North Dakota, stresses importance of soil health | North Dakota Office of the Governor
Gov. Kelly Armstrong participated in a roundtable discussion with U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., stressing the importance of soil health to agriculture and the future of Americans’ health and well-being.
CDFW News | Additional Recreational Dungeness Crab Area Delay in Portions of Humboldt County Due to Public Health Hazard
State health agencies determined that Dungeness crab from the southern boundary of the Reading Rock State Marine Protected Areas (41⁰ 17.6’ N. latitude) to Cape Mendocino, Humboldt County (40⁰ 10’ N. latitude), pose a human health risk due to elevated levels of domoic acid and recommended a delay of the recreational Dungeness crab fishery. Following this recommendation, CDFW Director Meghan Hertel has delayed the recreational Dungeness crab fishery in this area.
Health Brief: Medicare’s big payment shake-up
Plus: A new “STEM wave” is headed to Congress, with doctors and other medical professionals ready to take on health policy fights.
10 things to know about saunas, from stress relief to dehydration risks
A Cleveland Clinic family medicine doctor explains what sauna heat may do for stress, the heart, and pain, and when to skip a session.
A SHOCKING TWIST SHAKES UP THE RACE AND TEAMS HATCH A PLAN WITH DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES, ON “THE AMAZING RACE,” WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11
[] “Million Dollar Moves” – In Vientiane, Laos, a shocking twist shakes up the Race and teams hatch a plan with devastating consequences, on THE AMAZ
MICHAEL AND OLIVIA DEFEND A JOURNALIST WHO IS FRAMED FOR MURDER, ON “CUPERTINO,” THURSDAY, NOV. 19
“Judith & Michael” – Michael and Olivia defend a journalist who is framed for murder in a case that exposes the vast surveillance apparatus tracking
TREE MAIL BRINGS THE NEWS TO PAIR UP TWO BY TWO KNOWING THEIR PARTNER COULD SEAL THEIR FATE, ON “SURVIVOR,” WEDNESDAY, NOV. 11
“Load the Ark, Two by Two” – A castaway faces major backlash for loose lips and creating a messy post-merge Tribal Council. Then, tree mail brings th
AN INTERNATIONAL FUGITIVE HUNT TAKES AN UNEXPECTED TURN WHEN THE MARSHALS ARE CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A DIAMOND HEIST SHOOTOUT, ON “MARSHALS,” SUNDAY, NOV. 29
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The Blue Tsunami Swept Doctors and Scientists Into Office
More than 80 percent of congressional candidates backed by the pro-science PAC 314 Action won, including Michigan senator-elect and epidemiologist Abdul El-Sayed.
Popular YouTuber charged with sex crimes after shocking documentary
Former YouTuber EDP445 has been arrested and charged with several felony sex crimes after statements he made in a documentary.
BioWare’s final days to feature in upcoming documentary
Massive Effect: The BioWare Story started filming two years ago…
Creating room for Indigenous researchers to grow
Ava Schaaf can picture the future she wants: medical school, a physician’s degree and another Native doctor for her community. Getting there means working through difficult science courses. It also means finding people who help her believe she belongs.
These are the doctors and scientists elected in the 2026 midterms
Learn more about the scientific community coming into office in January
Washington state passes ballot measure banning trans girls from school sports
Measure in Democratic state says students must submit health documents verifying biological sex for girls’ teams
Medicus Pharma proposes $135M SkinJect spinout through SPAC business combination
Medicus Pharma CEO Dr Raza Bokhari joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss a proposed transaction involving the company's wholly owned subsidiary, SkinJect, which has entered into a non-binding letter of intent with an undisclosed special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) for a potential business combination. The proposed transaction contemplates a US$135 million pre-money enterprise valuation for SkinJect, alongside a concurrent equity financing intended to support the company's SKNJCT-005 clinical study in patients with Gorlin syndrome and preparations for a potential New Drug Application (NDA). Bokhari told Proactive that the proposed deal is designed to establish SkinJect as a separately listed company focused on advancing its dermatology and rare-disease development program. Under the proposed structure, the SPAC would acquire 100% of SkinJect in exchange for newly issued common shares in the combined company. Medicus Pharma intends to retain majority economic and voting ownership, allowing existing Medicus shareholders to maintain significant participation in SkinJect's potential future value. The separation would also provide SkinJect with a dedicated financing platform to fund its clinical development activities, particularly the SKNJCT-005 study targeting Gorlin syndrome, a rare genetic condition associated with the development of multiple basal cell carcinomas. The concurrent financing is expected to support the clinical program and the work required to prepare and potentially submit a New Drug Application, subject to successful development and regulatory progress. Final ownership percentages have not yet been determined. These will depend on negotiations surrounding the definitive transaction agreement and the combined company's capitalization, including retained SPAC cash, public and sponsor shares, warrants and other potentially dilutive securities. Medicus said the proposed transaction remains subject to the completion of definitive documentation and other customary conditions. The planned spinout represents a strategic step in Medicus Pharma's efforts to give SkinJect a dedicated corporate and financial structure, while allowing the parent company to retain majority participation as the dermatology program advances towards its next clinical and regulatory milestones. #proactiveinvestors #nasdaq #mdcx #tsxv #mdcx #pharma #SkinJect #Biotechnology #Healthcare #RareDisease #GorlinSyndrome #Dermatology #SPAC #ClinicalTrials #DrugDevelopment #NDA #Biopharmaceuticals
STHS and Prominence Health Host Senior Safety Workshop on November 18th
A simple misstep can have life-changing consequences for older adults. Beyond physical injuries, a serious fall can affect mobility, confidence and independence, making everyday activities more difficult.
NIST Releases Cybersecurity Guide for Solo Business Owners
What: On November 2, 2026, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a document titled, Small Business Cybersecurity: Non-Employer Firms (NIST Cybersecurity White Paper 50). The guide provides practical cybersecurity steps fo
Story Of 'Mass Effect' Studio BioWare Set As Super Channel Feature Doc
The final days of 'Mass Effect' video games studio BioWare will be told in a doc from Shane Fennessey and Adam Scorgie for Canada's Super Channel.
Winners, losers, and MAHA
Democratic doctors won big, MAHA faces an uncertain future, and what the election could mean for Medicare for All.
ENHA: A 77% DEAG stake builds a global sports and live-entertainment platform
An all-stock deal would give the acquirer a 77% stake in DEAG, pairing sports IP and telehealth with a live-event and ticketing platform. Combined 2027E revenue is ~$670 million; closing is expected in Q1 2027, subject to conditions.Original document: Enhanced Group Inc. [ENHA] Press release — Nov…
Doctor talks about physical, mental health challenges vets face after service
We speak with a doctor about the important things that military veterans should know about their mental and physical health after they leave the service.
Bear Hollow Zoo Mourns the Loss of Beloved Black Bear Yonah
Bear Hollow Zoo is mourning the loss of Yonah (16), an American black bear who was humanely euthanized on the evening of November 1 following complications from severe pneumonia. Yonah was surrounded
Ask the doctors: Sharing a meal is good for your health
Dear Doctors: I read about a study that says eating meals with other people is good for your mental health. Considering takeout, convenience foods and how much time we spend apart these days, this seems like important information. Do you know what study that was and how it was done?
Save the Date! State of the Science Forum: Community Water Fluoridation (CWF)
The State of the Science Forum: Community Water Fluoridation (CWF) will feature a discussion among experts in the field, residents and Board of Health members on the current evidence and scientific li
Save the Date! State of the Science Forum: Community Water Fluoridation (CWF)
The State of the Science Forum: Community Water Fluoridation (CWF) will feature a discussion among experts in the field, residents and Board of Health members on the current evidence and scientific li
How Big Pharma Shapes Medical Science, Influences Doctors, and Undermines Patient Care
This week, Mad in America explores three new articles around pharmaceutical industry corruption. The first examines industry’s hidden influence over Three new studies expose the pharmaceutical industry's hidden influence over medical research, the use of ghostwritten academic papers to advance commercial interests, and the normalization of industry influence among future physicians.
A ‘STEM wave’: Democratic doctors, scientists win a record number of seats in the midterms
New members of Congress are expected to help shape the health agenda next year.
As more doctors consult chatbots, health systems can block them
As hundreds of thousands of doctors consult AI chatbots to make care decisions, health systems see new risks to patients' health data.
Video: Democratic Health Professionals Win Seats in Congress
Some Democratic doctors and nurses ran and won congressional seats by centering their campaigns on opposing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
When papers become currency: a Chinese debate about trust in science
Last Saturday, 31 October, I went to the University of Hong Kong’s Beijing Centre for its Talent Forum. It was the fourth stop in the series this year, following events in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and on HKU’s main campus. The programme covered a remarkable distance in one afternoon. HKU’s Xiao-Jing Wang discussed computational neuroscience, intelligence, and the prefrontal cortex—before even delivering his inaugural public lecture to students back in Hong Kong. His colleague Bing Zhang took us from the Big Bang to artificial intelligence. Tsinghua’s Xue Lan asked how AI might reshape the institutional infrastructure underpinning higher education. There were lively panels featuring industry leaders from JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier—and Kaiser Y Kuo on the closing panel discussing innovation and international connections. I cannot pretend to have followed every detail of the brain models or the astrophysics. The talk that stayed with me was closer to something we have covered before: Zhou Zhonghe 周忠和 on papers, evaluation, and scientific trust. Zhou is a palaeontologist, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of The Intellectual (知识分子), China’s leading science commentary platform. His subject was uncomfortable enough for a room full of successful academics: what happens when the system for recognising good science starts rewarding something else? Part of my interest came from our sister newsletter, The East is Read, which covered the controversy around “Geng Tongxue” in May. A PhD dropout from Beihang University, Geng has publicly challenged papers by prominent researchers through detailed online allegations of manipulated images and fabricated data. At Tongji University, an investigation into a challenged Nature paper found academic misconduct, and the dean of its life sciences school was removed. The affair brought doubts about academic integrity well beyond laboratories and university committees. How could someone outside the established hierarchy spot problems in papers that had passed through prestigious journals and institutions? And what, exactly, had all that prestige guaranteed? Zhou approached these questions through two essays published in July by The Intellectual: one by Wang Xiaodong, director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and a response by Wang Liming, of Shanghai’s Shangsi Institute of Natural Sciences. Both began with the controversy over Geng. Their arguments deserve a wider audience, so I want to put parts of them alongside what Zhou said on Saturday. Wang Xiaodong’s starting point is evolution. A research system selects for the behaviour it rewards. Grants, jobs, journals, talent programmes, and prizes collectively determine which scientists prosper and which practices get passed down from advisors to students. “Whatever the system rewards is what it will evolve to produce,” he writes, citing the ancient Chinese saying: The King of Chu loved slender waists, and many in the palace starved to death. That is a more demanding diagnosis than saying there are dishonest people in science. Punishing a fraudster does not change the selective environment that made a particular kind of research profitable. His account also gives scientific success an awkward role in the story. As Zhou put it on Saturday, science became a victim of its own success. Once research became central to industry, national power, and economic growth, universities and laboratories expanded, and public money followed. That created an administrative need for rapid decisions: who should get the next grant, the next laboratory, the next appointment? The difficulty is that the true value of a discovery may take years or decades of testing and building to become clear. Resource allocation cannot wait that long. Publication counts, journal prestige, impact factors, and citations therefore become convenient ways to make an instant judgement. “The real problem is not that these indicators have no value,” Wang Xiaodong writes, “but that they are trying to answer a question that only time can answer.” Telling administrators simply to stop counting papers will never be enough. They still have budgets to distribute and appointments to make. Something has to replace the shortcut. Zhou described the consequences inside publishing. Papers acquire ever more requirements: a complete story, polished presentation, extensive datasets, and accessibility to readers beyond the immediate field. Individually, those demands sound reasonable. Together, he warned, they produce formulaic “eight-legged” papers 八股文 and rigid reviewing, while genuinely original or non-consensus work struggles to get past journal editors—some of whom wield immense gatekeeping power despite having limited laboratory experience themselves. Meanwhile, the demands for sprawling, “complete” narratives have fuelled a wider replication crisis. Wang Xiaodong uses a mahjong metaphor to describe the result: put the complex papers published by the exact same lab over several years side by side, and they often look like “Thirteen Orphans” (十三不靠)—every tile completely unrelated to the next, and none of them reproducible by outsiders. Zhou also spoke frankly as an editor who has trouble finding reviewers. Everyone wants someone else to review their work; qualified senior researchers have little time to return the favour. The labour is anonymous, unpaid, and brings almost no institutional recognition, so it increasingly gets passed down to postdocs and graduate students. And while anonymity protects reviewers from rank and personal favours, hyper-specialisation means an author’s most qualified reviewer is often a direct competitor, shielded from accountability. The protection and the problem coexist. Wang Liming takes the argument a step further. The decisive change, in his essay, is the instant conversion of academic honour into material resources. Once a paper can be cashed in for funding, a job, students, commercial investment, or even a company valuation, scientists are alienated from their work: they must keep minting this “research currency” to keep their teams alive. He is careful not to romanticise the past. The old world of gentleman scientists—financially independent figures like Boyle and Darwin who needed nothing from external funders—was also a closed club that excluded people without inherited wealth, women, and much of humanity outside the West. Professional science allowed ordinary people, himself included, to become researchers. Nobody should want to undo that. The problem, in his account, is an exchange system that becomes too uniform and too difficult to correct. His most pointed Chinese example is the “hat” (帽子): the prestigious talent designation that brings continuing access to money, laboratory space, students, and institutional influence. “If papers are the circulating currency of the research system, then a ‘hat’ is a bond that pays interest over the long term,” he writes. A paper at least requires another round of peer review. A title in the Chinese context can lock in a judgement made years ago and turn it into permanent status rent, regardless of whether its holder is still doing good science. Here, official institutions hire, organise, and evaluate scientists. Unlike honours awarded by autonomous academic communities in the West, a Chinese “hat” blends non-scientist administrative power with state authority. Once granted, it turns a past judgement into permanent status rent that is nearly impossible to revoke—because taking a hat off would imply that official authority erred in putting it on. Both Wangs see China as experiencing, at compressed speed, pressures present across global science. Research expansion, rising investment, publication growth, and elaborate evaluation metrics arrived in China within two or three decades rather than two or three centuries. Zhou agreed with that international framing—noting that recent US White House science policy documents and the new president of the US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow palaeontologist who recently visited Zhou’s institute in Beijing, have raised strikingly similar warnings about consensus-bound peer review, short-term project grants, and the replication crisis. Still, Zhou emphasised that China’s traditional hierarchy, personal networks (guanxi), and the ethos that “a good scholar becomes an official” (学而优则仕) amplify those pressures at home. So what would change things? Here Zhou’s tone differed from the call for a revolution in scientific trust in Wang Xiaodong’s essay. As an evolutionary biologist, Zhou favoured patchwork repair (修修补补). Living systems survive through accumulated adjustments; dramatic mutations are usually fatal. Science cannot return to a small, slow-moving pastoral era, especially after the successive accelerations of professionalisation after the Second World War, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. But it can alter the local environment in which researchers work. He pointed to domestic experiments designed to support unconventional research and diversify funding, including Tencent’s New Cornerstone Investigator Program, the Xplorer Prize, and the Future Science Prize. He also mentioned participating in reviews for “major non-consensus projects” under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. One guiding principle he recalled was wonderfully direct: “Failure is allowed; corruption is not” (允许失败，不允许腐败). That distinction would mean quite a lot if taken seriously. An honest attempt that fails should not have to disguise itself as a success to survive an assessment. Wang Liming’s essay adds a sharp caveat to the optimism about new domestic funders. Multiple organisations do not automatically produce multiple ways of judging science. If the same pool of senior domestic scientists makes the decisions through the same two-round review procedures, it is still “fake diversity.” He argues for three distinct kinds of money: broad baseline funding governed by fair procedures; patient funding for questions that take ten years; and non-consensus funding based on individual taste, deliberately empowering a few genuine experts to make biased, contrarian bets on eccentric ideas that would inevitably be averaged out by a committee. Replacing one monopoly with another achieves little; a healthy ecosystem needs variance. Zhou’s proposals for publishing were similarly concrete: strip papers of their resource-allocation burden and return them to recording discoveries and establishing priority; separate dissemination from evaluation, as eLife and Peer Community In do; adopt more modular “micro-publications” and real-name endorsements; recognize the labour of editors and reviewers; and give replication work proper credit rather than treating it as an unpublishable dead end. AI makes every part of this debate more urgent—and Zhou wove it throughout his talk. In his own preparation, he used AI to survey the declining influence of academic monographs, noting how tools are already changing how scholars gather information. More fundamentally, he placed AI as the latest great acceleration in scientific history: just as the internet sped up the pace of research and tightened external resource pressures, AI is compressing the cycle again. In the essays Zhou cited, AI cuts both ways. Wang Xiaodong expects large language models to erase much of the English-writing disadvantage long faced by Chinese scientists, further swelling the flood of papers coming out of Chinese labs. Wang Liming sees AI accelerating both ends of the trust crisis: it lowers the cost of paper mills and fabricated images just as quickly as it lowers the cost of automated image forensics, data auditing, and code reproduction. “Whoever builds the verification layer wins,” Wang Liming writes. His proposed alternative to the static, packaged “story paper” is a continuously versioned “unit of discovery” containing a falsifiable claim, raw data, analysis code, experimental parameters, and an ongoing log of independent checks—where negative results and failed replications are recorded rather than buried. Zhou ended his keynote by bringing AI back to the question of scientific honour and credit. Citing a recent Intellectual discussion on “What AI Means for Mathematics” featuring Fields Medalist Deng Yu 邓煜—at a moment when AI is already batch-solving mathematical conjectures, as HKU Vice-President Lin Chen noted in his opening remarks—Zhou agreed that human researchers must remain the principal agents: AI is a tool that frees scientists from tedious calculation to think about deeper, messier real-world problems. Yet that partnership creates a thorny new evaluation problem. When a breakthrough is made with AI, what is the human contribution and what is the machine’s? And since AI models distil centuries of accumulated human scholarship, is it right that the credit and value flow so heavily to the private AI companies building the tools? The old struggle over how to assign scientific honour is acquiring a whole new layer. What I took away was a serious discussion of how science can remain trustworthy as its scale, incentives, and tools change. These were scientists with real standing inside China’s system questioning how that standing is produced, and proposing changes that would affect their own institutions and peers. That made the afternoon at HKU’s Beijing Centre worthwhile. At the close, Wang Feng, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at HKU, said the value of the forum series—which heads to Hangzhou in December and cities like Chengdu early next year—would lie in the real cooperation it helped bring about. The university has plenty to celebrate: this week it topped the QS Asia rankings for a second consecutive year, alongside its 11th-place position in the QS World University Rankings 2027. For me, bringing this debate to an audience beyond the people who review papers and allocate grants was a useful contribution. 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