Science & Society

A new analysis has affirmed what many in the science audience already knew; mainstream media prefer weak observational studies. It's why you're reading this article here instead of the New York Times…

Some recent poll results show that right wing people in America have widened the gap of evolution acceptance. Generally, only a few points on this issue have separated the parties but if you know…

While it's going to make government accountants cringe, 2,000,000 people in England could be eligible for weight loss surgery, according to a paper in JRSM Open. That figure far exceeds previous…

Jon Entine is executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project, where this article first appeared. The ethics controversy over Food and Chemical Toxicology’s decision in November to retract a…

The pesticides that farmers use to protect their crops have changed a great deal over the last few decades While improvement is something we expect from technologies as diverse as pharmaceuticals to…

Sex is like pizza. Even when it's bad, it's still pretty good. And people like all kinds of pizza. It's entirely subjective so if you ask people about their sexual satisfaction, you might as well…

Want to be a teenage mother on your way to becoming a porn star? Probably not. The Farrah Abraham career arc has helped in significantly reducing births to teens, according to a new paper. How could…

If you donate money to Greenpeace and get a tax deduction, is your act less moral? Indeed it is, at least in the perception of other people, according to a new psychology paper on the "tainted-…

No one wants to work for free; doctors have to pay for insurance and employees and their medical school loans, drug companies spend billions on each drug and 95 percent of the time the drugs will…

Dr. James Hamblin at The Atlantic takes a skeptical look at the recent demonizing of gluten and grain and sugars and renewed calls for something resembling a paleo diet. I have been beating the…