Science Education & Policy

ObamaCare Will Mean A Lot More Social Workers In Health Care

The Affordable Care Act has a lot of costs and requirements that don't seem to make sense- requiring that plans include maternity coverage for post-menopausal women and single men comes to mind- and adding social workers into health care teams would ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2014 - 6:00am

Criminals Are Happy About The Affordable Care Act

Health costs saved or gained, like all claims about what did not happen, are made-up metrics, so we can either accept or not accept the notion that 4 million criminals are now going to have free health care and that will cost us less money than if they di ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2014 - 7:30am

Letting Teachers Also Handle Social And Emotional Skills Can Lead To Academic Gains- Study

Decades ago, when the Outcome Based Education movement was trying to take hold, educators who were already overburdened did not want to be saddles with managing social and emotional development of diverse classrooms and the competing goals of parents. Par ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2014 - 10:58am

Tiger Mom Backlash? Asians Without Academic Success May Be Shunned

In the War On Smart Kids Department, tiger mom mentalities may cause ethnic outcasts, say sociologists. Smart Asian kids will be shunned for being too smart? of course not. Instead, the scholars argue, the children who don't achieve might be.  Sociol ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2014 - 11:04am

Embrace Science: Europe Must Improve Response To Pest And Disease Threats

Dr. Anne Glover, the European Union's first chief scientific adviser, said when she got the job that her first priority was to stop letting environmental pressure groups suppress science. Modern Europe fears what is new, is consumed with a naturalist ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2014 - 10:21am

More Marijuana Means Less Cocaine Consumption?

Exaggerated health claims are not convincing the public, and "medical" marijuana has become something of a running cultural joke, but there is an upside to more pot- less cocaine use. Meth too, according to advocates at the RAND Drug Policy Rese ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2014 - 11:52am

The Upcoming Food Inquisition

Federal appointees do not report to the public. They are political picks chosen to advance the agenda of their administration. Since they are picked to influence issues of science, politics comes first, and science might come second — but, more often than ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 7 2014 - 1:57pm

Should We Be Selling Space? The Debate

NASA is fine with cute robots on Mars but if there is anything that fiascoes like the Constellation program and the James Webb Space Telescope have taught us, it's that NASA is not all that competent with big plans. Projects that were once mission cri ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 18 2014 - 12:46pm

EU Can Afford To Lead On Climate Change- So They Should

Like most of the developed world, European citizens are suffering from 'green fatigue'- claims that it is too late to do anything about climate change alternating with demands that more action is needed right now. Solar power has been an expensi ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2014 - 9:37pm

Junk Neuroscience 'Used And Abused' When Making Government Policy

Should mothers feel guilty if they actually feel stress during pregnancy? What if they suffer postpartum depression, do those things hurt baby brains? No, but pop psychology coverage in mainstream media is increasingly making its way into policy decisions ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2014 - 12:52pm