Science Education & Policy

For Earth Day, Do Your Part: Fly Somewhere To Talk About Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Apparently the EPA has not yet discovered how to do a video conference. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced that Administrator Gina McCarthy will promote President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to cut carbon pollution, slow the effects of ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 22 2024 - 9:39am

Vermont Should Stop Showing Leadership In Overruling Scientists On Farming

Despite Vermont's Agricultural  Innovation Board (AIB), created to inform regulatory recommendations using science, flatly stating there was no basis for a ban on a class of safe pesticides called neonicotinoids, and agreement by Vermont’s Agency of A ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 1 2024 - 1:03pm

The Upside To AI And Young Creativity

Artificial Intelligence- AI- isn't really AI at all, which may be why it has been so disappointing to companies that aren't trying to sell you a new leaf blower. Instead of doing something practical, like the dishes or laundry so you have more ti ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 31 2024 - 1:35pm

EPA Gives Personal Information On Farmers To Environmental Activists

The Environmental Protection Agency has always been a political beast- it is political appointees accountable to whatever administration is in power, not the electorate. President Richard Nixon created it, that should tell you something. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 18 2024 - 12:00pm

People Lie On Surveys And When It Comes To Guns, Women And Minorities Want Government To Know The Least

A crippling flaw in much epidemiology is that it takes survey results as truthful and then seeks to correlate that to some benefit or harm. It's why epidemiologists said butter was bad and trans fats were good, until butter was good and trans fats wer ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 18 2024 - 6:14pm

Fentanyl Issue- Blaming Big Pharma Or Foreign Crime Rings Tells Us How You Vote

During last evening's Republican National Convention, speakers repeatedly invoked the fentanyl crisis and blamed lax border control and unchecked illegal immigration. Democrats, on the other hand, blame Big Pharma, and argue corporate exploitation of ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 19 2024 - 1:33pm

Manga And Relativity- Otaku Only Or Science For Everyone?

The National Science Foundation and various other government groups with more funding than knowledge of the public wastes billions of dollars on STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) outreach, using the strange mentality that smart kids who ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 20 2024 - 9:39am

FDA Inspections, Compliance, Enforcement, and Criminal Investigations Warns 23andMe

Google money magic can only take you so far with the federal government.  23andMe, the highest profile genetic testing company, co-founded by Anne Wojcicki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, has gotten a warning letter from the FDA. The problem? They ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 29 2024 - 8:28am

End US Nationalism And Let Foreign-Born PhDs Stay

In the 1990s, the US administration decided the best way to protect wages for American workers was by making it very difficult for those pesky foreign science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) graduates living here to get work visas. Student visas ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 13 2024 - 9:34am

Minnesota Trial Lawyers Want To Ban Neonics- Here Is Why That Is A Mistake

Minnesota is having a challenging year, so challenging they are approaching California as the wackiest state, according to other states. They have a chronic anti-Semitism problem, including a member of Congress who may soon have to register as a foreign na ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 20 2024 - 3:20pm