Science & Society

What Democrats In Congress Can Learn From Anti-GMO Activist Mark Lynas About Science

British environmentalist Mark Lynas was an early advocate against GMOs and, as he tells it, that meant he was an early advocate for demonizing scientists. While most actual scientists did not give much credence to an offhand claim by researcher Árpád Puszt ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 2 2013 - 9:05am

Facilitated Communication: Same As It Ever Was (Same As It Ever Was)

In the past couple years, I’ve written over a dozen articles examining facilitated communication as Biklen and Crossley define it, along with Soma’s clone, Rapid Prompting. On several occasions, I have collaborated with Dr. ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Jan 4 2013 - 12:11pm

Counting The Cost Of The Anti-GMO Movement

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Article - Steve Savage - Jan 9 2013 - 2:37am

Gun Violence Is A Mental Health Issue, Not An Awareness One

Writing in JAMA, a group of researchers say the way to curb gun violence is to treat guns as a public health awareness issue, the way we do awareness campaigns against cigarettes and drunk driving. So media, celebrities and the public should "de-glor ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 16 2013 - 12:56pm

Lubos Motl be quiet about what You know Nil, Your Apology will be Accepted

Lubos Motl is an acquaintance of mine, a high functioning idiot savant whose considerable abilities in juggling mathematics and its application to merely theoretical physics contrast an obvious lack in grasping truly complex systems (say those with uncert ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Feb 1 2017 - 4:25pm

The Dangers Of Exploitation In Surrogate Pregnancy

The UK government needs to monitor surrogate pregnancy more carefully, says Eric Blyth, professor of social work at the University of Huddersfield. Couples seeking to build a family, and surrogate mothers overseas who help them, are in danger of emotional ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 18 2013 - 11:30am

When Science Goes To Pot Part III: Chatting With The Scientists

In parts 1 and 2 of this series, I undertook a (much longer than anticipated) personal investigation into how scientists discuss the effects of cannabis as a way of trying to better it, both as a drug and as a cultural subject. The articles generated a gr ...

Article - David Sloan - Jan 18 2013 - 1:10pm

On Gender Bias In HEP

Sabine Hossenfelder is a well-known theoretical physicist as well as a successful blogger. In her blog today I read a letter she sent to Time Magazine. The letter was triggered by the following sentence in a piece by Jeffrey Kluger discussing the runners-u ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 24 2013 - 8:10am

Penicillin, Not Birth Control, May Have Launched The Sexual Revolution

The 1950s are irrationally idealized by some economists and also irrationally derided by some in culture, but a new paper in the Archives of Sexual Behavior seeks to rehabilitate the cultural aspects and make the case that the 1950s use of penicillin, and ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 28 2013 - 10:41am

Cap And Trade Schemes Hurt Green Consumerism

There is a reason for the disparity between charitable giving among people who advocate smaller government and larger government; people who advocate larger government already feel like they are doing their part by paying more in taxes, so they give less ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2013 - 1:27pm