Science & Society

Environmental Guilt Is Big Business

39% of Americans feel 'green guilt' for wasting food, a much higher number than letting the sink run while they brush their teeth or not buying those stupid low-flow toilets. The 2012 Eco Pulse results are in.  So look for the latest marketing ca ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 27 2012 - 6:22pm

Canadian Farmers Want To Make Their National Policy On GM Foods Scientific

While Californians in America are fighting for ways to send America back to the 13th century, some Canadians are embracing science and the modern world. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 17 2012 - 4:32pm

Scientific Truth-Seeking: An Evolving Process

Standards of Transparency in Science?  ...

Article - David Brin - Aug 29 2012 - 4:18pm

Chemistry Culture Disconnect: Elites Support Obama But The Masses Support Romney

Since the early 1970s, all aspects of academia have skewed left.  With that political shift, the confidence that scientists are neutral arbiters for the public good has also declined on both sides. More Republicans than Democrats think the fix is in regard ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 5 2012 - 12:54pm

Economics: Eliminating Social Security Taxes For Older People Would Create A Stronger Tax Base?

Social security is in a crisis even worse than Medicare. Because Congress has consistently spent contributions, social security is always on the edge of insolvency and now that the Baby Boomers have begun retiring, the crisis is going to get worse, with no ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2012 - 5:04pm

The Obama Stimulus Plan- Did It Help Life Sciences?

Coming into the Democratic convention, science academia is going to be enthusiastic in its support of President Obama.  Unlike counterparts in private-sector science, academia will vote up to 85% Democratic and some of that reason has been that Democrats a ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 3 2012 - 2:45pm

Buying Organic- It's Complicated...

A  45-year meta-analysis of 240 science studies found that 'organic' processed food is the same in pesticides, the same in nutrition and a whole lot more expensive. "...there isn’t much difference between organic and conventional foods, if y ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 3 2012 - 5:43pm

UN Agrees To Do Nothing On Climate Change, Arranges More Meetings

Being on a UN committee to discuss climate change must be a lot of fun; you get to fly to exotic locations and no one ever expects you to get anything done.  I guess that applies to the UN overall. Bangkok held the latest meeting that accomplished nothing ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 6 2012 - 2:18am

Do Democrats Really Care About Science?

Sometimes you put things in the platform of a political party because it's a lot of drama to exclude them even if you don't really believe.  So we get hilarity like last week, with Republican candidate Mitt Romney disavowing some of his own platf ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 7 2012 - 12:34pm

Thomas H. Ray: care about Vongehr's idea of science

Instead of getting any public support, increasingly the mob starts to get out their pitchforks. Now I came across this gem over at the FQXi site – it is down on the comment thread, but it is written by the author of the article there, a technical writer a ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 9 2012 - 6:14am