Philosophy & Ethics

Wormholes Possible? Yes, And Using String Theory, I Am Also The Pope

Science 2.0 fave Dan Vergano at USA Today wrote an article based on the arXiv preprint written by Panagiota Kanti, Burkhard Kleihaus and Jutta Kunz called " Wormholes in Dilatonic Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Theory". ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 23 2011 - 2:15pm

Science, Faith, And Belief Systems

Belief systems are the stories we tell ourselves to define our personal sense of "reality".  Every human being has a belief system that they utilize, and it is through this mechanism that we individually, "make sense" of the world aroun ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Sep 3 2011 - 1:36pm

David Nutt Drug Harm Scale Revisited: His Science Was Flawed, Say Fellow Researchers

In 2009,  UK drugs advisor Dr. David Nutt was relieved of his duties due to  controversial views on the harmfulness of different drugs and the lack of evidence behind current drug policy. Various claims were that this was politically motivated and concern ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 6 2011 - 12:00pm

Publish Or Perish- Is That Journal Peer-Reviewed?

Once upon a time, journals were horribly expensive to produce and to read.  Your research might only be read by 200 people but those 200 people knew the work was vetted by reviewers.   It had a quality standard. Open access publishing is a blessing and a c ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 20 2011 - 11:05am

Skepticism Banned? Backlash Against Lower Evidence Standards For Alternative Medicine In Canada

Should the least-proven medical treatments have fewer guidelines than evidence-based medicine? ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2011 - 2:17pm

Radiation Effects: Did Nobel Prize Winner Hermann Muller Lie?

Edward Calabrese, an environmental toxicologist at University of Massachusetts Amherst,  says he has evidence that oNobel Prize winner Hermann Muller knowingly lied when he claimed in 1946 that there is no safe level of radiation exposure. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2011 - 4:21pm

Lobbyists Undercut Global Food Security And Science Acceptance In Europe

Powerful lobby groups opposed to genetically modified (GM) food are threatening public acceptance of the technology in Europe, research suggests.  They are also hampering Europe's response to the global challenge of securing food supplies for current ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 23 2012 - 11:47pm

Laws Of Nature And Natural Justice

Laws of Nature and Natural Justice What are the 'laws of nature', the natural laws which underly the thing which we perceive as natural justice? Aristotle discussed natural justice in terms of what 'ought to be'.  His view was that if ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Sep 25 2011 - 2:52pm

Hypothetical: Framing Questions Influences Behavior And Promotes Bias

Hypothetically, if someone told you that a hypothetical question can influence your judgments or behavior, would you believe them? ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2011 - 10:06am

Writers' Unions Join Literary Property Rights Suit Against HathiTrust And Five U.S. Universities

NEW YORK, October 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- The U.K. Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society, the Norwegian Nonfiction Writers and Translators Association, the Swedish Writers Union, The Writers' Union of Canada, University of Oslo professor Helg ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Oct 8 2011 - 10:54am