During the Obama administration, he was concerned about vaccines causing autism and it showed when it came to guidance about swine flu vaccines. His administration banned multi-use vials because of his party's insistence that preservatives caused the disorder.
Imagine this as a business model: You own a large potato farm. You have workers who grow and process the potatoes, you hire people to pay them, you have a sales force to sell them and then you pay trucks to ship them and have people to collect the money. You have fixed and variable costs and you charge enough money to pay those and make a profit. You have created jobs.The government decides that it wants to encourage everyone to grow potatoes. So they pass a law saying that if people will grow their own potatoes, they will subsidize it using tax dollars generated by other companies and workers. Then they mandate that in order to make growing potatoes appealing to more people, you will have to buy potatoes from individuals at the same price you sell them.
How dare biologists create something not found in nature!Well, mankind has a lot of experience in trying to keep nature from killing us - the war between man and nature is a grudge match whose history and resentments run deep. When scientists stop trying to keep nature from killing us is when we should worry.
***Professor Frederick L. Crane started his career as a botanist. He got a BS in Chemistry from the University of Michigan, Ann arbor in 1950 and received his PhD in 1953. Like many scientists of today, his next job was as a post-doctoral fellow and he went to work at at the Enzyme Institute of the University of Wisconsin, where he became an associate professor on his way to becoming a full professor at Purdue, where he now has Emeritus status.He has received the American Chemical Society Eli Lilly Medal for Biochemistry, he has worked for NATO, he even has an honorary medical degree from Karolinska Institute in Sweden. Yet he is most famous not for plants or chemistry, but rather for a beef heart.
The Deadliest Catch details the work travails of Bering Sea crab fishermen, but African wives of fishermen may be having adventures of their own.The authors of a recent paper estimated that up to 60% of men and 50% of women report extra-marital partnerships in their lifetime - and they believe those numbers are under-reported, especially among women, due to cultural constraints. In reality, range estimates are so broad as to be almost meaningless but even if it's 20% it's a lot.
Friends of the Earth, most famous for being against nuclear energy and every other bit of modern science and technology, now thinks most scientists are unethical - unless they are hand-picked by Friends Of The Earth.
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Writing instruction in U.S. classrooms is "abysmal" and the Common Core State Standards don't go far enough to address glaring gaps for students and teachers, a Michigan State University education scholar argues.
In a new study, Gary Troia calls for a fresh approach to professional development for teachers who must help students meet the new writing standards. His research, funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, appears in the journal School Psychology Review.
The advent of science blogging in the early- and mid-2000s meant people needed things to write about - and people generally want to live in important times. That meant exaggeration, hysteria and hyperbole.
http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2013/01/08/science_has_always_… mythology of the super-rational, completely impartial scientist is promoted by scientists - but it has probably done more harm than good. Good science requires passion, it requires arguments and it requires a desire to beat out other people. The notion that scientists are instead modern-day versions of Spock from "Star Trek", dispassionately analyzing data and uncovering the secrets of nature, is in defiance of what we know about actual scientists who do breakthrough work.
Science scores are up among students and two-thirds of students have a decent grasp of science. That sounds pretty good, right?If you are in the 'education stinks so let's give it more money' business, though, higher scores are cause for alarm. “This is dreadful,” Gerry Wheeler, interim executive director of the National Science Teachers Association, told the Washington Post.
The National Institutes of Health have had a good run - President George W. Bush nearly doubled their funding over his predecessor, and when that happens a status quo for expectation sets in, much like when President Obama gave a lot of money to solar panel companies.
Spite certainly involves some strange behavior.
But if someone looks like they are trying to rush you, and you slow down, is that really spite? Is a Muslim terrorist doing a suicide bombing engaged in spite?
Not every Pyhrric victory is spite.
David Marcus, a Washington State University professor of psychology, says spite has been ignored by social, personality and clinical psychologists but even that is misunderstanding basic definitions. Clearly psychologists who have used surveys and weak observational methodologies to make all kinds of bizarre claims (liberals are less afraid of change, people with messy offices are racist) would have tackled spite if there was any way to try and create a p value.
There is a discovery out there that has shown some success
with multiple sclerosis, with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS - Lou Gehrig's
Disease), and has even improved the function of aging hearts – but despite all
that, you have probably never heard of it.
No, this is not a story about how a revolutionary breakthrough got bought up by
some giant corporation and stuck in a warehouse to protect their profits - it
is instead a story about how potentially good products may never see the light
of day for lots of reasons. It happens more often than you think.
