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Zeynep Tufekci

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Opinion Columnist at The New York Times

Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @Princeton professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter @insight https://t.co/6Ky01N9JwA

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  • 1 week ago | nytimes.com | Zeynep Tufekci

    At the beginning of the 20th century, Frederick McKay, a young dentist in Colorado Springs, noticed that his patients' teeth showed unsightly browning - now known as fluorosis, a consequence of exposure to too much fluoride. At the same time, those patients' teeth were far more resistant to dental decay than those of people in nearby towns, whose teeth looked better.

  • 2 weeks ago | climatedepot.com | Marc Morano |Zeynep Tufekci

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/opinion/covid-pandemic-lab-leak.htmlZeynep Tufekci (@zeynep) is a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University…and a New York Times Opinion columnistExcerpt:Yet in 2020, when people started speculating that a laboratory accident might have been the spark that started the Covid-19 pandemic, they were treated like kooks and cranks.

  • 2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | M. Gessen |Lydia Polgreen |Zeynep Tufekci

    French: So, between the 1950s and 1970s, American courts developed a series of very robust legal doctrines designed to protect free speech - partly as a result of the Red Scare, but also because of efforts to suppress the civil rights movement. If NATO is the geopolitical version of saying "never again" to invasion and genocide, then First Amendment jurisprudence is the American version of saying "never again" to the censorship and tyranny of the past.

  • 3 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Jamelle Bouie |M. Gessen |Nicholas Kristof |Zeynep Tufekci

    Jamelle Bouie, M. Gessen, Nicholas Kristof and Zeynep Tufekci​ Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with four Times Opinion columnists about how anger at President Trump can be harnessed into effective opposition and why Democratic Party leaders are struggling to do it. Patrick Healy: In my job I hear a lot from readers.

  • 1 month ago | arabalears.cat | Zeynep Tufekci

    Des que els científics van començar a fer proves amb patògens perillosos als laboratoris, el món ha patit quatre o cinc pandèmies, segons com es miri. Una, la grip russa del 1977, va ser provocada gairebé amb tota seguretat per un error de recerca. Alguns científics d'Occident van sospitar ràpidament que l'estrany virus havia estat al congelador d'un laboratori durant un parell de dècades, però la majoria es van mantenir en silenci per por de ferir susceptibilitats.

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