Science & Society

Proofiness- How Gender And Pay Statistics Are Used To Do Bad Things

Proofiness, slightly different than Stephen Colbert's truthiness, is basically finding statistics you want to believe to enhance your confirmation bias.  It was coined by Charles Seife,  a long-time science writer who teaches journalism at New York Un ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 5 2011 - 10:12am

Is Wikipedia Sexist Too?

In Proofiness- How Gender And Pay Statistics Are Used To Do Bad Things, I noted that some of the statistics regarding gender and pay in science were misconstrued to make it look like science academia is sexist as opposed to simply being unequal in places. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 14 2011 - 6:22pm

Creativity,Apple's Patents, and Satoshi Kanzawa "Asians can't think,..outside the box".

Racist S.O. B. Satoshi Kanazawa said “Asians can’t think”, are raised to be conformist, plagiarize by copying ‘verbatim’  the work of established scientist while sincerely thinking it’s honoring their masters and not seeing a problem. After reading an arti ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Aug 6 2011 - 9:46pm

Susan Greenfield Invents A New Cause Of Autism And Carl Zimmer Invents A New Meme

Susan Greenfield is always interesting.   And New Scientist is always willing to print anything.  It's a happy time when they get together.    Greenfield once said playing Prokofiev at half speed would lead to depression, leading me to reply ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 8 2011 - 1:59am

Survey: More Than Half Of U.K., France And Germany Adults Are Gamers

United Kingdom has the Highest Ratio of Gamers in Europe, With 68% of men and 59% of Women Playing Games.   PopCap Games today announced the results of the National Gamers Surveys which found more than half of all adults in the United Kingdom, France and ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 8 2011 - 6:08pm

Scientists And Family Life- The Price They Pay

Almost 50% of female scientists and 25% of male scientists at the nation's top research universities say career kept them from having as many children as they wanted, something they might do over given the chance. As the saying goes, no one on their d ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2011 - 11:05am

The Education Effect On Religious Belief

Our more militant brethren in the science and science media community paint all religious people as intellectually immature but AAAS surveys show nearly 40 percent of AAAS members are religious and a new University of Nebraska-Lincoln study challenges the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 8 2011 - 11:57am

Scientists And Politics- Objectivity Or Reverse Snobbery?

A recent NY Times article echoes what I said last week in a meeting about a Science 2.0 television pilot- incredibly literate people who know a lot about science can't name a scientist. It's certainly true.  Adult science literacy has tripled sin ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 9 2011 - 3:02pm

Academics About God

Science and religion. Often mutual suspicion, sometimes plain hostility, seldom a workable combination. When the active inquiry in science meets the passive belief in religion, worldviews…ideologies clash, usually leaving no progress in understanding in t ...

Blog Post - Gunnar De Winter - Aug 10 2011 - 6:27am

Scientists Versus Journalists- Again

Science 2.0 was founded because, contrary to the beliefs of some scientists and some journalists, the public is really, really smart.  And they know a lot of science, they just frame it through politics more than they used to because scientists and journal ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 10 2011 - 6:13pm