Science & Society

As Big Pharma And Government Research Dwindles, Venture Capital May Be Back In Fashion

What do you get when you combine onerous government regulations that have increased exponentially, experimental climates that mean lots of products just may not work, and if they do work you get a product that will only be yours for a few years and during ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2012 - 7:42pm

Genetic Literacy Project On Neo-Eugenics

Eugenics, once discredited as part of the first wave of social authoritarian progressives that trampled free will for women, handicapped people and minorities, is attempting a 21st century comeback.  ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 30 2012 - 2:07pm

Big Pharma Doing More For Access To Medicine In Developing Countries Than Two Years Ago

The newest Access to Medicine Index, which ranks pharmaceutical companies on their efforts to improve access to medicine in developing countries, shows that the industry, led by GlaxoSmithKline, is doing more than critics claim. The Access to Medicine Ind ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 28 2012 - 10:28am

Sometimes Helping Customers Looks Like Corruption

In California, there is mandatory smog testing.  It isn't really meaningful, the worst polluters are actually exempt and the system has even led to a special class of smog testing company- test only shops- which means they won't be able to fix t ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 1 2012 - 6:36pm

Like Infectious Disease, Homocide Spreads Throughout A City

People follow patterns. If you were projecting a future for New York City in the early 1980s, you would have rightfully anticipated a Kurt Russell movie where the city is walled off from the rest of the country because the crime problem was rampant. Homic ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2012 - 12:00pm

Germany Spent 37 Billion Euros Subsidizing Alternative Energy In 2010

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Article - News Staff - Dec 1 2012 - 6:00am

Simpletons Amazed Pat Robertson Not A Young Earth Creationist

One of the silliest tropes in the hyped-up 'controversy' over evolution is that all religious people should be conflated with 'Young Earth Creationists'.   ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 3 2012 - 6:40pm

Telegraphic ‘Twizzlers’

Next to Science 2.0, one of my most frequently visited websites is Telegraph Blogs.  Among those issues which most raise the hackles of the readership is that of Climate Change.  Many of them regard Anthropogenic Global Warming as a religion based on spur ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Dec 5 2012 - 12:19pm

It Takes A Princess: Kate Middleton Pregnancy Draws Attention To Hyperemesis Gravidarum

The announcement that Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge (and, despite our title, not a princess, like Diana was, for arcane reasons that only experts in Teutonic monarchy understand) is expecting her first child is also bringing attention to a little-k ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2012 - 10:15pm

Childless Couples Have Higher Death Rates, More Mental Illness

As many times as your mother said your behavior would be 'the death of' her, the reverse seems to be true, according to a large study of childless couples. The prevalence of mental illness was also halved in couples who became adoptive parents, ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2012 - 8:03pm