Science Education & Policy

2011 Journal Impact Factor Highlights- More Than Half Improved

According to the "2011 Journal Citation Reports" (JCR) published by Thomson Reuters, Elsevier saw 58% of its journal Impact Factors increase from 2010 to 2011, which mirrored the overall trend- 54% of other journals also increased.  Impact Facto ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2012 - 5:11pm

Why Is Generation X So Skeptical About Climate Change?

We just had Snowmageddon and then heat a heat wave in parts of the US. Local, short-term weather events are suddenly proof of long-term climate change once again, according to journalists and biased bloggers who claim to care about science. "Generatio ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 20 2012 - 5:30am

Debunking The 'America Does Not Invest Enough In Science' Myth

Fareed Zakaria of CNN writes the Global Public Square column and expressed concern recently that America was losing ground in science because of research funding and education.   ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 27 2012 - 5:30am

Why A More Conservative Approach Would Fix Science Education

In a recent ScienceDebate questionnaire response, speechwriters for Candidate Mitt Romney tried to distinguish themselves from speechwriters for President Obama on education(1), and then proceeded to say the exact same thing Candidate Obama said in 2008 ab ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 13 2012 - 2:21pm

Contrarian View: Science Standards In School Won't Help?

I will tell you a secret. The loudest partisan progressives, some even in the science community, can find a way to hate anything if a Republican is involved.  So George Bush doubled NIH funding?  He still hated biology, we were told. No Child Left Behind i ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 13 2012 - 6:00am

Liberal Bias In Academia?

A few days ago I was asked by a Washington Times reporter, Emily Esfahani Smith, to comment on a soon to be published paper concerning the issue of liberal (or, rather, anti-conservative) bias in the academy. I am weary of the Washington Times, a paper tha ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Aug 16 2012 - 11:30am

Shadow Scholar Out Of Hiding- Will Rutgers Grant His PhD?

Remember The-Shadow-Scholar, the deeply disturbing confirmation of that academia generally selects for meaningless drivel while making critical information unheard; the story that especially academic media try to contain as a side issue about student writ ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 1 2012 - 10:26am

Europe Starts To Embrace Online Education

Europe isn't in this Millennium on science but they are beginning to embrace the Internet. The availability and popularity of online education in Europe is on the rise. Following the revolutionary developments in online learning in the US, Europe is ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2012 - 8:05am

Gender Analysis Says Women In Science And Technology Low In EU, US Workplace

Women may own the social sciences and education but they are under-represented in more math-intensive fields, according to a paper which looks at the US, EU, Brazil, South Africa, India, Korea and Indonesia. It was conducted by advocates of international ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2012 - 10:19am

Controversial Phthalate Plasticizer Found Safe For Children’s Toys, Confounding Activists

Bumbling coverage on phthalates underscores how activist journalism endangers ‘public science’ Last year, campaigning journalist Susan Freinkel noted that she wrote her anti-chemical book, Plastics: A Toxic Love Story, because she was shocked about how mu ...

Article - Jon Entine - Oct 9 2012 - 1:19pm