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  • Americans With PhDs Are The Most Reluctant To Get Vaccinated Against COVID, Study Finds

    08/15/2021 6:32:37 AM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 23 replies
    The Daily Mail ^ | 08/15/21 | Shannon Thaller
    Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburg researchers reported a U-shaped correlation between vaccine hesitancy and education level They concluded people with PhDs are not only the most skeptical about getting vaccinated but are also the least likely to change their minds about it Other risk factors for hesitancy included younger age, non-Asian race and living in a rural county with higher Trump 2020 support, among othersPeople with a PhD are the most hesitant when it comes to getting the Covid-19 vaccine, according to a paper by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh.Researchers surveyed just...
  • The Most Vaccine-Hesitant Group Of All? PhDs

    08/11/2021 7:24:02 AM PDT · by Enlightened1 · 33 replies
    The Post ^ | 08/11/21 | Unherd
    A new study found that the most educated are the least likely to get jabbedThe percentage of each education group that is somewhat vaccine hesitant. Source: Carnegie Mellon UniversityThere has been much debate over how to get the unvaccinated to get their jabs — shame them, bribe them persuade them, or treat them as victims of mis- and disinformation campaigns — but who, exactly, are these people?Most of the coverage would have you believe that the surge in cases is primarily down to less educated, ‘brainwashed’ Trump supporters who don’t want to take the vaccine. This may be partially true:...
  • Harrison Ford hits out at global inaction on climate change, warns of 'disastrous'(T)

    12/10/2015 6:02:25 AM PST · by rktman · 53 replies
    abc.net.au ^ | 12/10/2015 | Leigh Sales
    Hollywood heavyweight Harrison Ford has told the ABC he hopes world leaders can "finally do something" about climate change as he launched a broadside at squabbling world powers. During an interview with 7.30, Ford said the consequences of inaction were dire.
  • Number of PhDs receiving federal aid more than tripled from 2007 to 2010

    05/07/2012 11:13:37 AM PDT · by Nachum · 13 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 5/7/12 | Alexis Levinson
    Higher education is meant to be the path to success, but that conventional wisdom may not be entirely true. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education, between 2007 and 2010, the percentage of people with a graduate degree who were on food stamps or were receiving another kind of federal aid more than doubled, reaching 360,000. In 2007, 9,776 people with PhD’s were receiving some kind of aid. In 2010, that number had more than tripled to 33,655. For people with master’s degrees, the number spiked from 101,683 to 293,029. Austin Nichols of the Urban Institute crunched those numbers for...
  • ‘Starving’ Ph.D.s deserve low pay

    01/09/2012 6:08:48 AM PST · by SmileRight · 44 replies
    BIZPACReview.com ^ | 1/09/2012 | John R. Smith
    In this age of mainstream news reporters ignorant of economics, the media rarely trumpets the power and truth of free markets and the laws of Supply and Demand, very real forces in our daily lives that confound, embarrass and reject socialist politics. The free market communicates important information. This is why socialist and left-leaning politicians, who hate free markets, operate in economic illiteracy. The free market places no real importance on government contrived social measures that lack real-world value. When the free market speaks, socialist economic theories tremble. An example of the free market correcting economic nonsense is the “socially...
  • Student Loan Debt: Who Are the 1%? (Those with the most debt have graduate degrees)

    12/03/2011 8:50:46 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 47 replies
    New York Times ^ | 12/03/2011 | Judith Scott-Clayton
    A continuing refrain of Occupy Wall Street protesters has been “student debt is too damn high,” as James Surowiecki wrote in The New Yorker. In some cases — like for the college graduate profiled in a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education who has $100,000 in debt and uncertain job prospects — this is unarguably true. But such cases make for dramatic reading precisely because they are so rare. The first thing to note is that most of those with that much debt have graduate degrees; it is difficult to accumulate that much debt in an undergraduate program....
  • Judge bars Bonds’ voicemails from perjury trial

    03/17/2011 4:15:44 PM PDT · by Artemis Webb · 5 replies
    AP ^ | 031711 | AP
    SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—A federal judge on Thursday barred the jury at Barry Bonds’ perjury trial from hearing angry voicemails the home run king left with his mistress during a stormy nine-year relationship. Prosecutors wanted to introduce the voicemails to show that Bonds was experiencing so-called “roid rage” when he left the messages demanding to know the whereabouts of Kimberly Bell. But U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston said Thursday that the voicemails had little relevance to proving Bonds lied when he denied knowingly taking steroids. Illston said she believed prosecutors were trying to get the voicemails into the trial for...
  • Ph.D.s vs. farmworkers, legals vs. illegals over immigration bill

    06/07/2007 1:23:45 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 15 replies · 665+ views
    AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 6/7/07 | Juliana Barbassa - ap
    As heated as the debate over the immigration overhaul is on Capitol Hill, the divisions may run even deeper among immigrants themselves. The measure is pitting computer-science Ph.D.s against strawberry pickers, legal immigrants against illegal ones, and those who want it all against those who are grateful for whatever the bill offers. "Our only hope is immigration reform," said Connie Yoon, a Korean immigrant living illegally with her parents and sister in Chicago. "The chance of legalization - it means everything to us." The legislation before the Senate could lead to the most sweeping changes in U.S. immigration policy in...