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Another attack on the Bureau, but top politicians have stopped listening to climate change denial

  • Written by: Michael J. I. Brown, Associate professor, Monash University

Has the Australian climate change debate changed? You could be forgiven for thinking the answer is no.

Just this week The Australian has run a series of articles attacking the Bureau of Meteorology’s weather observations. Meanwhile, the federal and Queensland governments continue to promote Adani’s planned coal mine, despite...

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Why anecdotes aren't strong evidence when it comes to quitting smoking

  • Written by: Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
imageWhile compelling, personal anecdotes of what helped people quit smoking suffer from self-selection bias. We don't hear from people who didn't succeed.from www.shutterstock.com

In the early 1990s, I was the guest of the local health service in Broken Hill, New South Wales, during a national week promoting quitting smoking. I went on the local radio...

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Country rules: the ‘splinternet’ may be the future of the web

  • Written by: Terry Flew, Professor of Media and Communications, Queensland University of Technology
imageOur internet is becoming increasingly fragmented thanks to local laws.c12/Shutterstock

Both The Economist and WIRED are worried about the “splinternet”. The UK research organisation NESTA thinks it could “break up” the world wide web as we know it.

What is this awkwardly named idea? It’s the concept that someone’s...

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The Goldwater rule prevents psychiatrists diagnosing Trump from afar but some say there's too much at stake

  • Written by: Chris Rudge, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Sydney

In the late 19th century, Sigmund Freud’s colleague Wilhelm Fleiss successfully diagnosed an illness in one of Freud’s relatives, without even having met them. Freud was so impressed by Fleiss’s “diagnostic acumen” that he went on to advocate the method in certain circumstances.

Freud would write that diagnosing...

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  1. Five quotes from the Turnbull-Trump call show the folly of Australia's refugee policy
  2. Greg Hunt's plan to reduce hospital admissions won't work if he can't measure successes and failures
  3. Cricket pay saga a case study in how not to resolve industrial disputes in sport
  4. Friday essay: the photographer, the island and half a million lifejackets
  5. When it comes to sport, boys 'play like a girl'
  6. The right to bare arms: the history of Australian sex worker activism
  7. How do you know that what you know is true? That's epistemology
  8. Computer says no: robo-advice is growing but we still don't trust it
  9. As a coastal defence, the Great Barrier Reef’s value to communities goes way beyond tourism
  10. The Wonderful Weirdness of 'You're Not Alone'
  11. Grattan on Friday: Marriage on the rocks in divided Liberal Party
  12. Turnbull to tell power companies: do better by customers
  13. Politics podcast: Tiernan Brady on same-sex marriage showdown
  14. Australia has ignored black viewpoints before – why would a constitutional 'voice' be any different?
  15. ABC News' long-form journalism pays off on Twitter
  16. Weekly Dose: methylprednisolone, a drug for treating inflammation but not rare kidney disease
  17. Diana revived the monarchy – and airing old tapes won't change a thing
  18. Stigma and stereotypes about sex work hinder regulatory reform
  19. To empower students with effective writing skills, handwriting matters
  20. The off-topic Conversation #131
  21. Human embryo CRISPR advances science but let's focus on ethics, not world firsts
  22. Australia’s city/country divide is not as wide as you may think
  23. Sex work and the law – it's complicated
  24. Guide to the classics: Homer's Iliad
  25. Dr G. Yunupingu's legacy: it's time to get rid of chronic hepatitis B in Indigenous Australia
  26. After the streaming 'gold rush' – a guide to China's video crackdown
  27. Fair winds and following seas: yes, a spider could migrate across an ocean
  28. Class divide defies social mixing and keeps public housing stigma alive
  29. 'Tax returns for water': satellite-audited statements can save the Murray-Darling
  30. Solar is now the most popular form of new electricity generation worldwide
  31. Australia needs dozens more scientists to monitor climate properly, report says
  32. Entsch warns against 'ambush' meeting on marriage, amid speculation about postal ballot
  33. Lack of internet affordability may worsen Australia’s digital divide: new report
  34. Weekly Dose: anaesthetic and recreational drug ketamine could be used to treat depression
  35. UK crackdown on gender stereotypes in advertising shows up Australia's low bar
  36. Here's why it's so hard to say whether inequality is going up or down
  37. Bitcoin splits and Bitcoin Cash is created. Explaining why and what happens now
  38. More than 'slacktivism': we dismiss the power of politics online at our peril
  39. Home ownership falling, debts rising – it's looking grim for the under 40s
  40. Men still prefer mothers to stay at home: 12 charts on attitudes to work and family
  41. Australians want more children than they have, so are we in the midst of a demographic crisis?
  42. Pokies, sport and racing harm 41% of monthly gamblers: survey
  43. Curious Kids: What's going to happen to the Sun in the future? Will it explode?
  44. Affordable housing shortfall leaves 1.3m households in need and rising – study
  45. NAPLAN is ten years old – so how is the nation faring?
  46. The Method gone bananas? How motion capture actors are embracing their inner ape
  47. 'Just do the weather': does it matter if TV weather presenters aren't experts?
  48. So many in the West are depressed because they're expected not to be
  49. Party turmoil over way ahead on same-sex marriage
  50. Trump's Obamacare repeal attempt fails in US Senate

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