Science Education & Policy

Two generations ago, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), run by one of my heroes, Dr. John Higginson, created conclusive evidence that smoking causes cancer. The U.S. Surgeon…

In 2009, with a Democrat back in the White House, corporate science and medical journal publishers asked Rep. John Conyers, Jr., a staunch ally of President Obama, to get the new president to issue…

The world has spent $9,000,000,000,000 on alternatives to energy and has very little to show for it. The share of conventional energy has dropped by 0.2% while 2,000,000,000 people still use dung and…

Every summer is getting hotter. Wildfires are blazing, and the worst is yet to come. There’s nothing to be done – we’re doomed! Sound familiar? This “climate doom” narrative can dominate the news…

Artificial Intelligence will probably be remembered as the least well-defined technological advancement of humankind. Ever since the two words were reportedly put together in a sentence - and we know…

If you had a way to save the world and the NIH refused to fund it, could it ever happen? What if both Science and Nature, which claim to be the most prominent journals in the world, refused to…

It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out…

As more Americans consider whether a college degree is worth it, the rising cost of attending a college or university is often at the forefront of their minds. The average college tuition more than…

Long before they declared war on vaccines and chemicals, anti-science activists got their first cultural homerun - they got a catchy buzzword to get media to repeat claims that food was killing us.…

A few weeks ago, a religious group forecast an apocalypse with the Bible as their source. More recently, a bee religion also warned of an apocalypse. They cited Science magazine.  The…