Science & Society

Breastfeeding- The Educational Divide In Canada

A survey found that new moms in Canada are weaning their infants early instead of feeding them just breast milk for the first six months of life.  That falls below recommendations made by the World Health Organization and endorsed in 2004 by Health Canada ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 11 2013 - 4:10pm

Evolutionary Psychologists Say Left-Wing Cultural Relativists Are Out To Get Them

A few weeks ago, I made note of evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller (Evolutionary Psychologist Geoffrey Miller Has His Own Grad Student Criteria- Weight) and his odd claims about what makes a successful grad student. He claimed that obese women- errr ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 29 2018 - 12:55pm

Piece Work For The 21st Century: Does Results Only Work Give Parents More Time With Children?

With the rise of unions and salaried employees, piece work went out of fashion in American business. Yet regulations and taxes and services have a cost, so more families than ever need to have both parents work time, which can lead to a 'time squeeze ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2013 - 3:00pm

Mandatory Cap And Trade Worldwide Can Mitigate Climate Change?

The best way to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change is through the use of a European-style cap-and-trade scheme, according to a paper by business school scholars.   ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2013 - 10:38am

90 Percent Of East Asian Teenagers In British Columbia Are Not Sexually Active

90% of East Asian adolescents in British Columbia are not sexually active, so East Asian parents are doing something right, but the ones who do have sex engage in some risky behavior The paper in the Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality also says it is the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2013 - 9:48am

Weekend Science: Non-Drinkers Have Higher Mortality Than Light Drinkers

Everything in moderation, goes an old saying, and it is true that too much alcohol can be bad for you in lots of ways.  But teetotalers, those who abstain from alcohol completely, aren't extending their lives either. As a class, people who don't ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2013 - 8:30pm

Not Everything Is Due To Bias, Including All-Male Physics Departments

If a physics department has no women, does that mean there is hiring discrimination? Only if your job in sociology is to find discrimination. Simple statistics shows that is not true or there would be claims of discrimination in psychology, where lots of ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2013 - 2:00pm

Easy Answers To World Problems

After reading another article by Alex Berezow [" The Arrogance of a Well-Fed Society "] insisting that there is absolutely no problem with human population growth, I couldn't help but be struck by the fundamental naivete of the proposed solu ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Jul 22 2013 - 4:30pm

Sharing Data Meant Reduction Of Unnecessary Medical Tests (And Cost) In Sweden

The rate of unnecessary cancer scans for low-risk prostate cancer patients- the kind of defensive medicine that is a large chunk of medical costs in America- plummeted in Sweden in the decade following a joint campaign to curtail such tests by Swedish Cou ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 2 2013 - 12:12pm

Stereotype Threat Increases Risk For Becoming Or Staying Obese

Perceived weight discrimination, or the real kind, may increase risk for obesity, according to survey results published by Dr. Angelina Sutin of the Department of Medical Humanities&Social Sciences, and Professor Antonio Terracciano, Department of Ger ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 25 2013 - 11:13am