Science Education & Policy

Will Med School Be Better If There Is Less Pressure?

It might seem that when lives are at stake, a little bit of pressure comes with the territory. Doctors who can't take pressure should be doing something besides medicine, like teaching at medical schools.  A paper in Academic Medicine says there is a ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2014 - 5:47pm

GM Crops Debated At Irish Food Conference

Genetically Modified crops- GMOs – are not popular with organic shoppers and anyone else obsessed with the naturalistic fallacy. When program topics at a food conference include "Enforcing the consumer’s right to be stupid", you can be sure they ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2014 - 3:44pm

USA Has Faltered In Economic Freedom But Still Leads The World In Entrepreneurship

A giant chunk of America may want to regulate, restrict and drive out business but this is still the best place to be for entrepreneurs. The USA remains the most entrepreneurial economy in the world, according to the 2014 Global Entrepreneurship and Devel ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2014 - 9:48am

Biomedical Research: Europeans Want To Embrace The US Model

The legacy of European science and biotechnology is good- Europeans say that health research is important- but modern acceptance of science remains lacking. However, a new survey by Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale- Inserm- shows ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2014 - 11:07am

Kansas Republican Mike Pompeo Introduces Safe And Accurate Food Labeling Act For New GMO Products

Kansas Republican Mike Pompeo, a Congressman from Wichita, is behind a bill to create a national standard for mandatory for review of GMO foods by the FDA, called the"Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act." What? Have Republicans gone over to the a ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 11 2014 - 8:20am

With Ernie Moniz, We Finally Have An Energy Secretary

I was cautiously optimistic when Dr. Ernie Moniz was tapped as Energy Secretary, for two reasons. First, he wasn't picked because he was obsessed with CO2 and $9 a gallon gas, the way Steven Chu was, and second, he had political experience.  ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 11 2014 - 6:00am

Delaying Keystone XL Indefinitely Sets A Bad Precedent For Scientization Of Politics

A decade ago, science academic was worked into a holy war by the belief that President Bush hated science. What were the reasons? They are hard to remember now. He federally funded human embryonic stem cell research for the first time- but he limited it to ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 18 2014 - 6:24pm

Earth Day: Illegal Immigration Is Killing The Environment, Says Group

Between 2000 and 2010, native-born Californians had fewer children and a giant chunk of the middle class fled the state, but California's population still grew by 3,390,000. ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 20 2014 - 4:10pm

Hunters, Fishers Object To Weakened EPA Rules In Alaska

Environmentalists generally regard people as the enemy, but that is a mythology only held by urban fundraisers working for environmental corporations. In actuality, sportsmen are some of the biggest protectors of the environment. They are even more protect ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2014 - 11:24am

NOAA Commits To Developing A National Recreational Fishing Policy

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries has decided to adopt a national recreational fishing policy, a move greeted enthusiastically by sportfishing and boating enthusiasts, who have been urging efforts by the National Marine Fisheries Se ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 21 2014 - 7:00am