On the grapevine
Quotes: Menstrual bleeding and climate change
We look at why a researcher is collecting menstrual blood, and how new forms of climate denial are gaining strength. News from the world of science policy.
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The bioengineer Linda Griffith at MIT has described in the New York Times how gynaecologists reacted when she and her co-researchers were the first to collect menstrual blood in order to investigate endometriosis. It’s a chronic disease that leads to extraordinarily heavy periods and period pains.
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The neuroscientist John Cook has written on ScienceNews about a study focussing on the debate around climate change. He and a colleague discovered that the amount of misinformation about science is decreasing, but that the political and technological solutions to climate change are increasingly under attack.
