Science Education & Policy
- Life's Big Questions Require Science Literacy
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Everyone needs to understand the basics of science to participate fully in the democratic process. shutterstock. By Jonathan Garlick, Tufts University. ...
Article - The Conversation - Dec 17 2014 - 12:39pm
- Why I’ll Talk Policy With Climate Change Deniers But Not Science
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What rising sea level? Peter, CC BY-SA By Mark Maslin,University College London There are many complex reasons why people decide not to accept the science of climate change. The doubters range from the conspiracy theorist to the skeptical scientist, or fr ...
Article - The Conversation - Dec 18 2014 - 10:03am
- China Gets It Right: Industrial Clusters Fuel Economies
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Though the U.S. government is touting claims that it has created an economic engine better than at any time in the 20th century, the reality is much different and a large part of the reason why Congress has lurched to the opposition party of U.S. Presiden ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 28 2014 - 9:30am
- Lobbyists Urge Congress To Keep Medicaid Spending Boosted
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Do doctors make too much money? It depends on who you ask. The public perception is that doctors now overcharge for services to account for the cost of government paperwork while government routinely picks a fee they will pay based on what doctors charge. ...
Article - News Staff - Dec 29 2014 - 12:15pm
- 12 Common Mistakes In Empirical Social Science
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Management students entering my thesis prep course without having been involved in research before, or taken a probability course, reliably make these mistakes. Many students go on to do empirical quantitative theses, meaning that their misconceptions abo ...
Article - Fred Phillips - Dec 31 2014 - 2:09pm
- For Brits, 5 New Laws In 2014 You Should Know About
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Let 'er rip! Simon James, CC BY-SA By Siobhan Weare, Lancaster University ...
Article - The Conversation - Dec 31 2014 - 1:22pm
- A Law To Promote Creative Output Looks Nothing Like Copyright
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If we want to maximize creativity, tying cash to creative output is a bad idea. tanakawho/Flickr By Dan Hunter, Swinburne University of Technology Imagine you were asked to write a law that encouraged creativity. What would it look like? Whatever your ans ...
Article - The Conversation - Jan 4 2015 - 4:30pm
- FDA Label Might Unnecessarily Prevent Metformin Use In A Million Diabetics
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Groups like the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration set the gold standard worldwide for science- but they are still soundly criticized. Every time the EPA clears a pesticide it is blasted because the studies it mandat ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 6 2015 - 3:10pm
- Raise Taxes On Alcohol, Reduce Binge Drinking
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Higher alcohol taxes curb binge drinking, according to a new paper by Boston University scholars. ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 11 2015 - 12:32pm
- 66 Percent Of Doctors Recommend Careers As Nurse Practitioners Instead
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Despite high wages, there has been a shortage of primary care physicians in America and the Affordable Care Act, coupled with an increased 'teach to the protocol' environment in medical school, is going to make the shortage worse. With medical s ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2015 - 6:11pm
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