Science Education & Policy

Will The President Accept Science This Time?

Yet another government science report has found that the Keystone XL pipeline is not going to be risky to the environment.  ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 6 2014 - 1:37pm

GMO Soybean Pollen Is Harmless, Except To European Regulators

Policy makers know to hit biology where it counts; in the wallet. Rural farmers in Mexico have seen honey shipments to Germany rejected because of genetically modified organism (GMO) soybean pollen in honey samples Is it harmful? No, but that is not how E ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2014 - 1:15pm

Education Wars: the Empire Strikes Back?

One of the difficulties of judging the ways of people is the fact that highly intelligent individuals can at the same time be in the grip of a totally cockeyed ideology.  One reads things like this: Parents who dress their daughters in pink are holding ba ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Feb 22 2014 - 11:26am

Institute Of Cancer Research Criticizes Drug Companies For Not Testing On Children Enough

In the endless war on pharmaceutical companies, there is a consistent refrain; the US Food and Drug Administration is too slow to approve new drugs unless it approved drugs too quickly and the product hurt someone. Mainstream media highlight the complaint ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 12 2014 - 2:04pm

3 Ways To Keep America Dominant In Science And Technology

Research and Development (R&D) has become something of a dirty word throughout a giant swath of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) community. Academia is where it's at, the saying goes, and basic research, learning for the sake o ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 12 2014 - 5:00am

Social Class Talk Is Taboo: But When It Comes To Academic Achievement...

Americans don't like to talk about social class, we threw out the British because they believed an act of birth made them superior. In America, no class is better than any other- we are the only culture that thanks a waiter for interrupting our conve ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 16 2014 - 2:05pm

The 2014 Erice School of Science Journalism

The fifth international school of Science Journalism will be held in the small town of Erice, in Sicily (Italy) between June 9th and 14th. The event is organized by the INFN, and I wish to publicize it here also because I will give a contribution there. Th ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Feb 17 2014 - 6:15am

Draconian Smoking Laws Could Save.009 Of The Chinese Population Over 40 Years

If China wants to save.009 of its population by 2050, they need to implement UN tobacco control policies, including surveillance and monitoring of tobacco use prevalence, creation of smoke-free environments, treatment of tobacco dependence, tobacco consum ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2014 - 5:31am

For-Profit Vs. Non-Profit Hospice: The Differences Outside Service Delivery

Anyone who has had to deal with Hospice for a loved one has to been impressed with the level of compassion and concern and caring they bring. But they are not all the same, and a paper in JAMA Internal Medicine finds a way to create a little bit of class w ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2014 - 4:00pm

Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz Is Climate Friendly- Because He Supports Energy Science Activists Don't

While former Energy Secretary Stephen Chu is a fine scholar, he seemed to be lost when it came to drafting a federal energy policy that was evidence-based. It's easy for an academic to postulate that $9 a gallon gas will be 'good' for us but ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 4 2014 - 10:44am