Science Education & Policy

Will The ACA Benefit Cancer Survivors?

So far, the Affordable Care Act and its mandate for insurance coverage has been a disaster. It isn't just that the website doesn't work, it's that the bulk of the people signing up for the program have simply switched from other insurance p ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2014 - 12:34pm

UK Ponders Criminalizing Guilty Healthcare Professionals

Currently in the UK, when health care workers are "unequivocally guilty of willful or reckless neglect or mistreatment of patients" that is not criminal behavior but Dr. Jo Bibby, Director of Strategy at the Health Foundation, writing in BMJ, sa ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 24 2014 - 9:33am

Food Awareness Should Include Disclosing Pesticides On Organic Food

If you care about what is in your food, you have no greater sympathetic intellect than me. But if you are an anti-science activist, you may not understand the distinction between what is in your food and what it simply is- and there we part company. A gene ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 12 2018 - 7:09pm

A Backdoor Effort To Label Genetically Modified Food

A Washington state referendum to put warning labels on genetically modified foods, I-522, failed in the last election, but a new effort is more clever- they want to warn the public about Frankenfish and are couching it in an effort to simply make the publi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 21 2014 - 1:08am

Would You Trade Evolution Accuracy For Accuracy About Vaccines, GMOs And Energy?

If you listen to political pundits in Virginia and nationwide, House Bill 207 is a covert effort to hinder evolution education. (1)  The bill never mentions evolution, it instead "encourages students to explore scientific questions, learn about scient ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 5 2014 - 4:18pm

Decibels Determine Democracy?

Voice voting is still used at some civic, local and county meetings. In more of a traditional sense, it's also still employed in Congress and some state meetings. But new paper finds that a single loud voice can skew the result if that's not acc ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 29 2014 - 1:18pm

In Microbiology, Science Teaching Goes Viral

While there is a glut of PhDs in academia, to an extent where some post-doc jobs don't even pay anything, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology said in 2012 that America will need an additional 1,000,000 science, technolo ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2014 - 9:06am

Science, Do Not Change To Be More Like Business Or Education, No Matter What You Read

If you want to get quality research, you want the best researchers, right? Not necessarily. An advanced trend in science academia is social engineering, and that means building a team that isn't simply the best minds, but has a diverse mix of ethnici ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2014 - 3:04pm

'Whole Grain' Is Vaguely Defined- But Not For Long

'Whole Grain', like 'Natural' and 'Organic', has a lot of definitions. Fortunately for marketing departments, people often read their own positive definitions into those terms. But people invariably pay more for all of those t ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2014 - 7:30am

Americans Aren't Concerned About Genetically Modified Foods

Despite mainstream media coverage of the 'controversy' over genetically modified foods, Americans still don't see the controversy. The survey found that more than half (53 percent) say they know very little or nothing at all about geneticall ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2014 - 12:01pm