The Scientist - 04.2020

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Speaking of Science

QUOTES

We’re going to have to figure out

what our American approach is to

this and how we’re going to take

more aggressive mitigation steps.

We’re losing a pretty narrow window

to step in.

—Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the US Food and

Drug Administration, addressing the country’s response

to the mounting COVID-19 epidemic during his keynote

speech at the Miami Breast Cancer Conference (March 7)

Examples of the stereotypes we

observed included perceptions

that African Americans were less

knowledgeable about cancer research

studies, less likely to participate due

to altruism, or simply less likely to

complete all facets of the research

study. These and other examples of

bias based on stereotypes of potential

minority participants raise concerns

that non-whites may be offered fewer

opportunities to participate in cancer

research studies.

—University of Alabama at Birmingham researcher

Soumya Niranjan in a press release announcing a Cancer

paper she coauthored reporting the results of interviews

with cancer center leaders, principal investigators of

clinical trials, referring clinicians, and others, to determine

if biases can explain the underrepresentation of racial and

ethnic minorities in clinical trials (March 9)

BY EMILY COX AND HENRY RATHVON

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2. Brain membrane (2 wds.)


3. Like some gaseous elements


4. Developmental period


5. Bill who wrote Everything All at Once


6. Essential micronutrient


7. Founder of analytical psychology


8. Bunsen’s sort of implement (2 wds.)


9. Adjective for an alpha male


10. Companion of a canine
    1 7. Side of a sapphire, say


11. About 97 percent of a modern penny


12. Asteroid, parrot genus, or dawn
    goddess

Answer key on page 5

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Note: The

answer grid will include every

letter of the alphabet.

ACROSS

1. Titular season in a Rachel Carson book


2. Tribe with the largest US reservation


3. Body studied in limnology


4. Outcome of eccrine and apocrine
   activity


5. Polysaccharide thickener in many foods
   (2 wds.)


6. NASA project between Mercury
   and Apollo


7. Organ or device for detecting impulses


8. Potentilla by another name


9. Physics Nobel winner of 1921


10. Quahog, for one


11. Early casualty of one-man flight?


12. Emu, rhea, or kiwi

JONNY HAWKINS