Science Education & Policy

I) An article recently published in Nature concludes that the percentage of disruptive scientific findings and patents is much lower than it was a few decades ago. ...

Article - Martín López Corr... - Apr 18 2023 - 4:21am

FDA Targets Puff And Hyde Disposable E-Cigarettes

In the early days of changes in laws to products like alcohol, some people below the new legal threshold were still able to get it. It was impossible to arrest everyone selling illegally, and there was a certain freedom argument many made, i.e. why can I s ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 31 2023 - 10:12am

AI And Existential Risks

With the development of the new generation of large language models (ChatGPT, Bard, etcetera) we are seeing the first hints of an accelerating pace in the progress of artificial intelligence. These innovations may turn out to be good for humanity (with all ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 6 2023 - 3:17am

Grass Fed, Free Range, No Antibiotics- USDA Is Cracking Down On Misleading Animal Claims

You may not know it, but the US Department of Agriculture does; if there is detection of an antibiotic in an animal off to the processing plant, the entire railcar full will be destroyed. On the other hand, if you never use antibiotics for a sick animal, y ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 14 2023 - 3:07pm

Did President Obama Restore Science To Its Rightful Place?

In his 2009 inaugural address, President Barack Obama promised to “restore science to its rightful place,” in addition to making the government more transparent and accountable. Millions rallied to his cause. Four years later, how has he done? Unfortunate ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 21 2023 - 9:30am

California Didn't Reduce Brownouts With Solar, It Reduced Them With Less Regulation

In the 1990s, utility regulations promised to do for electricity what it had done for airline travel and telephone calls- reduce costs by 90 percent for consumers. California instead did what government had done to cable television costs; used over-regulat ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 21 2023 - 4:56pm

Academic Patents Mean Money, And That Means An Engineering Department

If a school doesn't have a strong sports program, universities that have seen faculty and administrative salaries skyrocket have used the unlimited student loan debt program created in the late 1980s to fund growth. Yet a few years prior to that, a sc ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 16 2023 - 12:31pm

Enough: Toward A Sustainable Economics

We're no longer surprised that so many people bow down to the Invisible Hand of economics, worshipping its messenger coins and notes, and attending its oracles, the Wall Street analysts. Adam Smith, the 18th-century originator of the invisible hand m ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Aug 25 2023 - 3:10pm

Subsidized Housing Makes Inequality Worse

With rampant inflation, an economy whose only baffling bragging right is that it gained back 80 percent of the jobs lost since the Biden administration began, and mortgage rates increasing the most since Jimmy Carter was president, calls are on to subsidiz ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 30 2023 - 10:56am

Anti-GMO Beliefs Are Held By People With Lower Education

A YouGov poll found that anti-GMO beliefs are a sign of being les s educated. It is something the science community has always known but organic industry trade groups such as Organic Consumers Association, U.S. Right To Know, and SourceWatch try to claim t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 11 2023 - 10:58am