Science & Society

Can hurricanes cause stillbirths to rise sharply or is it epidemiologists torturing data until it confesses again?  A paper in the Journal of Epidemiology&Community Health says that…

Would reducing smog lead to higher earnings? Yes, say Columbia University professor of Environmental Health Science Frederica Perera  and colleagues. They correlate reduced air pollution to…

Media has always been partisan but when it was only partisan one way, that was the norm. It was considered objective and impartial. In the US, there were social conservative Democrats who believed in…

Gang culture gets you one way or the other according to a new paper. Gang members are twice as likely to become both a victim and an offender of a crime than non-gang members. Why? Single acts…

If you want to find a hotbed of anti-science sentiment, sure, you could go to a cigar bar full of Republicans and mention that the temperature outside must be up because of global warming - and you…

It isn't just U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry insulting Jewish people, the whole world harassed, threatened and used abusive language toward Jews on an individual basis more in 2013. But there was…

He's not alone. An earnest young progressive named Ryan Cooper, who has dutifully written for all of the left-wing sites proclaiming to be more science-y, put his partisan cards on the table with…

Privacy discussions of modern times have four pillars - and they are all weak, according to a new article. There are four main arguments about privacy: (1) it is dead; (2) people don't care about…

About 4,000 babies die in their sleep each year from due to suffocation and strangulation despite recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics that infants always be placed on their backs to…

Although, by international standards, the UK has very low rates of deaths in children, within western Europe the UK has a higher rate of deaths in children than nearly every other country in the…