Science Education & Policy

Argument: GRE Is A Bad Way To Pick Physical Sciences Graduate School Students

Selecting graduate students in the fields of science and engineering based on an assessment of "character", whatever that means, is better than relying almost entirely on their scores on a standardized test like the GRE. The goal in that would b ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 12 2014 - 3:38pm

EU Inches Toward Science Acceptance, Wants A Vote To Lift Ban On GMOs

The Shackled Man Theory says that holding someone back for half of a race and then setting them free later means the shackled racer can never really catch up.  If so, environmentalists have already poisoned the well to such a large extent in Europe that ge ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 14 2014 - 1:49pm

Science Blogging Versus Science Journalism

I have spent the last few days at a School of Science Journalism in the pleasant town of Erice, in western Sicily. The school, held at the Ettore Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, brought together science communicators, freelance writers, magazine ed ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 13 2014 - 5:40am

Despite Issues, Massachusetts Residents Confident In Their Health Insurance Law

A new poll by The Boston Globe and Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) finds, eight years into the state's universal health insurance legislation enacted in 2006, 63% of Massachusetts residents support the law and 18% oppose it, while 7% are not s ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2014 - 5:35pm

Obama Administration To Tackle Pressing International Crisis- Mislabeled Seafood

You might think that with Iraq collapsing and Russia and China preparing for giant land grabs, our foreign policy would consist of more than 'global warming stinks' and 'you other countries should have nicer LGBT policies'. If so, there ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 17 2014 - 9:26am

UK “Scandal” Of Child Deaths Blamed On Health Care Funding And Income Inequality

When UK Child-Mortality-Rates (CMR) for children aged 0-14 were compared with 20 other Western countries between 1979-2010, it revealed a "scandal", Countries such as Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain had child death rates highe ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2014 - 6:03pm

Organic Lobbyists Petition To Prevent USDA From Having Organic Food Oversight

Since 1990 organic food has been allowed to exist independently of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the one federal agency responsible for food safety and quality. Sure, organic food still gets recalls, lots of them- using feces as fertilizer and ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 22 2017 - 10:09pm

Developmental Trajectory In Children: When It Comes To Understanding Numbers, Culture Counts

American children learn the meanings of number words gradually: First they understand "one," then they add "two, "three," and "four," in sequence. At that point, however, a dramatic shift in understanding takes place, an ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2014 - 2:00pm

Antidepressant Media Coverage Linked To Big Increase In Suicides

In 2003, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued warnings about a potential danger for young people taking antidepressants. The warnings drew intense and outright exaggerated media coverage. Result: A sudden, steep decline in the number of prescripti ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2014 - 9:42am

Why Environmentalists Are Suing The Federal Government- Wind Turbine Eagle Deaths

It's no secret that politicians have always favored corporations that are involved in their pet causes- and it's no secret that wind turbines are killing endangered birds and forcing a giant migration of more. What is less well known is that if y ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 19 2014 - 8:31pm