Science & Society

Are You More Scientifically Literate Than A Tea Party Republican?

Any time you get a majority of people together, there will always be some sensitivity and compassion and outreach for the minority. In science academia, it is obvious; small blips in representation get concern about fixing the problem of how to get more of ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 22 2013 - 1:04pm

Co-Founder Of Greenpeace: Greenpeace Is Wrong About Golden Rice

Greenpeace was founded on a pretense of humanitarian action- between 1969 and 1971, they gathered together because they wanted to put an end to hydrogen bomb testing. Later they lost their way and it became about whales and, in the US, being a political ac ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 11 2014 - 7:26pm

Paul Knoepfler To Receive National Advocacy Award At World Stem Cell Summit

Science 2.0 contributor Professor Paul S. Knoepfler of the University of California Davis School of Medicine is being honored at the World Stem Cell Summit with the Stem Cell Action 'National Advocacy Award' from the Genetics Policy Institute. T ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2013 - 12:14pm

Gender Is Not Biological, Find Sociologists

Think gender is determined by patriarchal biological concepts like a chromosome? You'll never make it in sociology thinking that way. Instead, the social sciences are slowly overturning concepts like genital and chromosomes and other science, and it ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 28 2013 - 10:55pm

PETA: EPA Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program Uses Too Many Animals In Animal Testing

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) say the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program is inconsistent when it comes to animal testing. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2013 - 2:20pm

Romance Online: It Is A Post-Racial World, Especially Among Whites

While politics is not yet post-racial- every criticism of the politics of a minority member of government is labeled racism- dating seems to be, according to UC San Diego sociologist Kevin Lewis after looking at patterns of 126,134 US users of the dating ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2013 - 4:58pm

Exercise During Pregnancy- It's Good For Baby Brains

Even 20 minutes of moderate exercise a few times per week during pregnancy enhances the newborn child's brain development, according to a new paper. In the past, obstetricians would tell women to take it easy and rest during their pregnancy. Now it i ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2013 - 10:36am

Europe's Taboo Topic: Omitting 30 Percent Of Needs When Government Runs Health Care

Due to Budget constraints, registered nurses in European countries are often confronted with difficult decisions: They have to decide which care activities they can offer to their patients and which to omit.  What usually gets cut is patient comfort or ta ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2013 - 5:00am

Mandatory Calorie Postings At Fast-Food Chains Don't Influence Food Choice

Posting the calorie content of menu items at major fast-food chains in Philadelphia, per federal law, hasn't change purchasing habits or decreased the number of calories that those customers consume, researchers reported Friday at the Obesity Society ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 18 2013 - 7:00am

Heavy Drinking Leads To More Divorce- Unless Both Spouses Do It

Drinking and marriage don't mix- unless both spouses do, according to a recent paper by the University at Buffalo Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) which followed 634 couples from the time of their weddings through the first nine years of marria ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 21 2013 - 5:54pm