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Noted: “This is irresponsible,” says R. Alta Charo, a bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, who is helping the World Health Organization try to police gene editing. “My biggest worry is that he’s going to bring about the birth of children who are going to suffer because he wanted to play around.”

Noted: Rebecca Larson, an expert in biological waste engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said that systems that combine multiple functions, such as treatment of water and organic waste aren’t common in Wisconsin farming.

Noted: Plus, SNAP benefits are determined monthly, so a worker earning an hourly wage could be eligible one month and not another, said Timothy Smeeding, professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: Megan Hansen, a 21-year-old dairy science major at the University of Wisconsin whose family is an owner of Creamery Creek, called it the “woe-is-the-dairy-industry message.”

Noted: Universities already collect an extraordinary amount of information, said Alan Rubel, an associate professor in the Information School and Center for Law, Society and Justice at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Noted: “There’s a bit of pulling the wool over people’s eyes, trying to talk up these products in a way that isn’t sincere and transparent,” says Karola Kreitmair, a medical ethics expert at the University of Wisconsin.

Noted: Some provisions in the working group’s wide-ranging plan, which it presented at a meeting of the NIH’s Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD) in Bethesda, Maryland, are already proving controversial. For example, the panel recommends asking grant recipients about their conduct over the previous seven years. But panel members “weren’t able to answer how or why” they settled on a seven-year window, says Juan Pablo Ruiz, a stem-cell biologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: William Tracy, a professor of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said he hasn’t talked to one scientist who believes moving the agencies out of Washington is a good idea.

Noted: “Wisconsin’s budget situation is challenging but has not been as dire as that in Illinois,” University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said, adding that legislative leaders have remained firm in their stance against legalization for recreational use. Leaders in the Republican-controlled state Legislature have remained quite firm in their stance against legalization for recreational use.

Quoted: According to Gary Kirking of the University of Wisconsin Extension, the Kazakhstan educational system is based on a traditional Russian style of education. Many of the about 50 Kazakhstanis had visited Mauston at one point through one of the 10 Kazakhstan delegations the UW Extension sponsored over the previous seven years.

Noted: The scenarios given in the paper are all too likely, say experts. Jonathan Patz is a physician and director of the Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He’s been studying the health effects of global warming for two decades.

Noted: Academics at the hearing said little was known about CBD and urged caution. Barry Gidal, of the University of Wisconsin, said CBD has a complicated set of effects on people. The effects on patients from the blood-thinner Warfarin, a life-saver for people seeking to avoid strokes, change sharply when the patient took CBD, he said

Noted: Mark Seidenberg, a UW-Madison professor and cognitive neuroscientist, has spent decades researching the way humans acquire language. He is blunt about Wisconsin’s schools’ ability to teach children to read: “If you want your kid to learn to read you can’t assume that the school’s going to take care of it. You have to take care of it outside of the school, if there’s someone in the home who can do it or if you have enough money to pay for a tutor or learning center.”

Noted: One study in Wisconsin suggests that caretakers, for example, took home over $12 an hour by last year, so were only just getting back to their (real) average earnings achieved in 2010. Expansion at the bottom of the labour market “is finally pulling some wages up. But it’s certainly been much slower in this boom than any other,” argues Tim Smeeding, a poverty expert at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison. He describes “capital winning over labour” for several decades, and expects the trend to continue, given weak unions, more automation and other trends.

Noted: “If you’re 100% dependent on farm income, you’re being squeezed really bad,” said Mark Stephenson, director of the Center for Dairy Profitability at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.