Science Education & Policy

1990s Protectionism: Why Foreign PhDs Leave The USA

In all of the money and outreach trying to convince more Americans to become scientists, what is most often left out is we train lots of scientists that we then force to return home, where they become competitors to America. The origin of the student visa ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2014 - 5:45pm

Life's Big Questions Require Science Literacy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Higher alcohol taxes curb binge drinking, according to a new paper by Boston University scholars.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 11 2015 - 12:32pm