Random Thoughts

Putting It Plainly, Your Content Stinks

Twice a day I get an email from someone offering me the outstanding opportunity to carry their infographic, press release or puff-piece interview with someone who has invented a new Miracle Cure and if it seems like it was written by a real person, I will ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 27 2018 - 4:43pm

Weekend Science: Liberals Love Liquor

Sociologists and psychologists know how to get attention- make a crazy claim based on correlations in population data or surveys of college students, use terms like factor analysis and p-value and statistical significance, and it will get into a journal. S ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 31 2014 - 6:13pm

Missed It By That Much...

For THE WIRED WORLD IN 2013 annual prognostication issue, predictions for the year by some of the luminaries in science media, I predicted that one of the Big 5 organs would be created. The benefit is obvious; organs created from a patient's own adult ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 20 2014 - 7:05pm

Why Whole Foods Pseudoscience Gets A Free Pass

American science media is constantly going on about evolution and climate change deniers- sometimes even inventing assaults on evolution that don't exist- but when it comes to quasi-religious beliefs about energy and medical science, we get a whole sl ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 11 2014 - 7:24am

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey- The Review

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality- Carl Sagan I missed the big Carl Sagan thing when it happened. I was in high school when Cosmos came out, we lived in the country and if you wanted to watch a diffe ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 10 2014 - 2:12pm

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370- Pieces Of The Puzzle

MH370- Pieces Of The Puzzle Edit- please see new article- Could A Fire Have Caused The Loss Of MH370? There has been a great amount of idle speculation and misinformation about the missing flight MH370 in the media and around the web.  Much of the news st ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 7 2014 - 6:22pm

4.5 Things Cosmos Gets Wrong

In The Federalist Today, I have a piece titled Five Things Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “Cosmos” Gets Wrong.  ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 13 2014 - 2:35pm

Cool Job In Biology: A Day In The Life Of A Beer Taster

I play guitar but I don't play out for money. Aside from a high level of stage fright about playing guitar in public I think doing it for money would take away a lot of the relaxation. That doesn't apply to all things. I write every day and alway ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2015 - 5:37pm

Malaysia Airlines MH370- Verifiable Sources

Malaysia Airlines MH370- Verifiable Sources Edit- please see new article- Could A Fire Have Caused The Loss Of MH370? This is a follow-up to MH370- Pieces Of The Puzzle, in which I said: There has been a great amount of idle speculation and misinformation ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 7 2014 - 6:23pm

Malaysia Airlines MH370- A Faint Trace?

Malaysia Airlines MH370- A Faint Trace? Edit- please see new article- Could A Fire Have Caused The Loss Of MH370? The latest information coming from official sources suggests that MH370 was heading towards the Andaman Islands when last tracked by radar.  ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 7 2014 - 6:25pm