Science Education & Policy

“Diversity, Inclusion, Equity And The Threat To Academic Freedom”: Excerpts

Policies of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE) have increasingly led to the exclusion of individuals who do not share a radical 'woke' ideology on identity politics and to the suppression of the academic freedom to discuss such dogmas. Here w ...

Article - Martín López Corr... - Dec 13 2022 - 5:36pm

Dear Space Explorers- Yes We Do Need To Protect Ourselves And Earth From Any Microbes In Mars Rocks As We Explore

Open letter to Space Colonization Enthusiasts. It is natural for enthusiasts who are keen on space colonization to think we need no protection for Earth. After all settlers on Mars in science fiction stories rarely run into issues. Even when they find lif ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 17 2022 - 5:01pm

Many Serious Mistakes In NASA's Samples From Mars Environmental Impact Statement- Proposals For A Way Forward

I was astonished when I read NASA’s draft Environment Impact Statement for their mission to return samples from Mars. NASA are normally so reliable. Normally their work is well grounded in the best and most recent science, and they are also very open with ...

Article - Robert Walker - Dec 23 2022 - 4:54am

Chinese And Russian Campaigns Won't End Globalization- Science Is Now Part Of The Marketplace

During the Trump administration, it was discovered that the Obama administration had let Chinese efforts to manipulate US academics go unchecked while highlighting that the Russian government was funding domestic environmental groups in order to subvert US ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 13 2023 - 9:52am

The Environmental War On Baby Chicks

In the introduction to Science Left Behind, I wrote about a bizarre effort by MoveOn.org-sponsored (think Tea Party, but of the left) progressives who helped gain control of Congress in the 2006 election to make good on their promises to Make America Green ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 13 2023 - 5:51pm

Despite COVID-19, The US CDC Remains Unprepared For Zoonotic Diseases

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed a great deal of weakness in the federal government's ability to control, much less prevent, any diseases at all. The concern had grown during the last decade, when it began to take 6 weeks for CDC to inform the public tha ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 17 2023 - 10:46am

Playing Video Games Linked To Positive Learning Effects On Young Children

Video games are a favorite activity of children, yet any affect on their health is often perceived to be negative. A new paper in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology looked for an association between the amount of time spent playing video games ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2023 - 6:12pm

Censoring Old Films Or Mark Twain Books: Airbrushing Out Racism Is Just 'Editing The Past'

One progressive effort to wipe out racism today is to insist it's still omnipresent now but eliminate it from the past. So authors like Mark Twain, or even Ian Fleming, are shoved to the side if they examined the culture of their day uncritically. In ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 2 2023 - 4:49pm

GMO Labeling Is A Smart Marketing Strategy

Campbell Soup Co., which makes a variety of foods including the namesake soups and Prego pasta sauce, has declared their intention to put labels on their foods noting they are “partially produced with genetic engineering.” Some are lamenting this will be ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 8 2023 - 3:29pm

Solar Power Customers Will Have To Start Paying- And That's A Good Thing For Green Energy

Imagine this as a business model: You own a large potato farm. You have workers who grow and process the potatoes, you hire people to pay them, you have a sales force to sell them and then you pay trucks to ship them and have people to collect the money. Y ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 10 2023 - 1:15pm