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Lemme Purr: the celebrity-backed wellness gummies trading on intimate insecurities
Alice Howarth
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18th December 2024
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First do no harm? Treatments don’t need to be harmless, as long they do good
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Sarah Hearne
14 Articles
Sarah Hearne is a PhD student studying marine ecology with a focus on niche separation in living and fossil fishes from the Kimberley region of Western Australia. She is a feminist with a particular interest in the issues facing women in STEM.
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Climate Change
Rapa Nui: European myths mask the reason for societal collapse on Easter Island – colonialism
Sarah Hearne
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9th August 2021
The belief that the islanders – and not Europeans – destroyed Rapa Nui minimises the devastating impacts of European colonialism.
Science
iNaturalist’s flaws leave people with a false impression of the world around them
Sarah Hearne
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12th July 2021
AI-based apps like iNaturalist are fun but flawed - they're no substitute for real interaction and engagement with nature
Media
Netflix’s Seaspiracy, and how to spot misinformation in glossy documentaries
Sarah Hearne
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14th June 2021
Seaspiracy is just the latest example of a documentary using style and glossy production to hide the fact that it's peddling misinformation
Science
Coping with Death: Why the 5 stages of grief don’t tell the whole story
Sarah Hearne
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17th May 2021
The five stages of grief are a overly simplistic representation of the grieving process, and one that was never intended by their creator
Science
Species, Individual, Gender – biology and taxonomy don’t deal in black and white
Sarah Hearne
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22nd March 2021
We can try to define biological traits though simple catch-all labels, but nature is always much more complex in reality
Alternative Medicine
Chiropractors love to claim their treatments are ‘individualised’, but they’re wrong
Sarah Hearne
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7th October 2020
Although practitioners like to claim chiropractic is individualised, in reality patients are offered the same treatment plan, whatever their complaint
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