

Lynne Peeples is a Seattle-based author, journalist, statistician, and speaker who specializes in medicine, public health, and the environment.
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Dim days, bright nights: a hidden cruelty of Ice detention
Tens of thousands of people held across the US amid Trump’s immigration crackdown could face an insidious hazard: broken internal clocks
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On autism and vaccines, there are lies, damned lies and statistics
During an interview in late April with Dr. Phil, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reiterated his appeal to parents on vaccine safety: “We live in a democracy, and part of the responsibility of being a parent is to do your own research.”
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It’s Time to Do Away With Early School Start Times
The first bell echoes off the bricked hallways of Lindbergh High School in Renton, Washington, warning dazed and coffee-clutching students to pick up their pace…
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Lessons from the COVID data wizards
Data dashboards have been an important part of pandemic response and planning. What have their developers learnt about communicating science in a crisis?
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