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—Pennsylvania State University climatologist Michael E. Mann, in an interview about his paper in Scientific Reports linking global warming to changes in the Northern Hemisphere jet stream (March 27)
—Chairman of the US House science committee Lamar Smith (R-TX), during a hearing on climate change in which Michael E. Mann mentioned a Science news article criticizing Smith’s politicizing of the committee (March 29)
—Science blogger Razib Kahn, on the controversy surrounding his writing on race, which posits a biological underpinning for what many scientists consider to be a social construct (Undark, March 28)
—Svante Pääbo, biologist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, on the lack of a genetic basis underlying racial categories (February 5, 2016)
—US National Academy of ...
