Science & Society

What Is Anti-Science?

Too often we see the "anti-science" label being tossed around and invariably we get behind our respective barricades and prepare for the barrage of arguments thrown at each side. However, the question we should be asking is why a different point ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Jun 15 2012 - 1:08pm

The Anti-GMO Campaign’s Dangerous War On Science

This November, Californians will vote on an initiative that would require any food containing ingredients derived from genetically modified crops to be labeled as such. Backers of the “California Right To Know Genetically Engineered Food Act” are pitching ...

Article - Michael Eisen - Jun 27 2012 - 5:51pm

Should Chelation Therapy Get Science Funding?

Henry I. Miller, M.D., physician and molecular biologist, is the Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and was at the NIH and FDA from 1977 to 1994. He is, basically, a longtime knowledg ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 28 2013 - 12:39pm

MMS Apologists, What Part Of Industrial Bleach Do You Not Get?

MMS (Miracle Mineral Solution) is getting some much needed attention in the skeptic community, as well as the autism community. Created by a man named "Bishop"Jim Humble, who runs his own Genesis Church, it is a potent industrial bleach which whe ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Jun 20 2012 - 11:27am

Leader Of Germany's Environmental Movement Loses Faith In The IPCC

What does it take for  Fritz Vahrenholt, a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Hamburg, a former German environment minister and one of the fathers of the German environmental movement (and, unlike everyone at Desmogblog.com, who ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 22 2012 - 2:42pm

James Lovelock: What's Eating The Godfather Of Global Warming?

James Ephraim Lovelock, CH, CBE, FRS, Ph.D, aged 92, is a chemist and creator of the Gaia Hypothesis. He is called the 'Godfather of Global Warming'.  What he was, to most people, was an alarmist more on the order of President Obama's Scienc ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 26 2012 - 12:11pm

Asian Women Are Penalized Getting Into College But Their Gametes Are Gold

Americans are being beat by Asians again.  Asians do better on international standardized tests, their economies are better; heck, they are even robbing us of that last stronghold of American dominance- obesity. The Chinese have gotten a level of fat in on ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 25 2012 - 11:38am

Don't Be Hatin' On Edward O. Wilson, Richard

Professor Richard Dawkins, the bestselling author who has been wrong about biology as often as he has been right, is taking Edward O. Wilson, Science 2.0's favorite  myrmecologist, to task for his latest book. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 25 2012 - 3:45pm

Self-Plagiariasm Is The New Prius

Self-plagiariasm is big news these days.  A short while ago, former ACS president Ron Breslow had an article in the Journal of the American Chemical Society pulled- not because he claimed dinosaurs might be ruling other planets, but because he re-used work ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 28 2012 - 4:30am

Curious George Will Give You Lung Cancer

Sigmund Freud wrote in   The Interpretation of Dreams that "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"- he meant not everything was about sex, which must really frustrate evolutionary psychology grad students (1), being as he is the most famous psychiatr ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 17 2012 - 4:59pm