Science & Society

Obamacare And Unemployment Top America's Worries For 2014

The Obama administration finally managed to replace a stagnant economy and unemployment as the top worry of Americans in the latest Associated Press—NORC Center for Public Affairs results. The problem for his legacy is that it was replaced by the Obamacar ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2014 - 11:38am

Money Matters: Out-Of-Pocket Expenses Impact Treatment Adherence For Cancer Patients

No one wants to work for free; doctors have to pay for insurance and employees and their medical school loans, drug companies spend billions on each drug and 95 percent of the time the drugs will never make it to market. And that chain of money flows to c ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2014 - 6:27pm

Tainted Altruism: Are Charitable Acts That Have Personal Gain Less Moral?

If you donate money to Greenpeace and get a tax deduction, is your act less moral? Indeed it is, at least in the perception of other people, according to a new psychology paper on the "tainted-altruism effect", which suggests that charity in con ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 9 2014 - 12:49pm

Thanks Farrah Abraham: "Teen Mom" Shows Contributed To Decline In US Teen Childbearing

Want to be a teenage mother on your way to becoming a porn star? Probably not. The Farrah Abraham career arc has helped in significantly reducing births to teens, according to a new paper. How could that be determined? It's an economics claim so corr ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2014 - 2:16pm

Rich Women Have Better Sex

Sex is like pizza. Even when it's bad, it's still pretty good. And people like all kinds of pizza. It's entirely subjective so if you ask people about their sexual satisfaction, you might as well take the answers at face value. Rich, Spanis ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 15 2014 - 11:34am

An Example Of How Much Pesticides Have Changed

The pesticides that farmers use to protect their crops have changed a great deal over the last few decades While improvement is something we expect from technologies as diverse as pharmaceuticals to electronics, few people are aware of the positive develop ...

Article - Steve Savage - Jan 18 2014 - 3:54pm

Conflict Of Interest? Ethics Debate Intensifies Over Retraction Of Flawed Séralini Rat Study

Jon Entine is executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project, where this article first appeared. ...

Article - Jon Entine - Jan 17 2014 - 10:30am

In England, 2 Million People Now Eligible For NHS Bariatric Surgery

While it's going to make government accountants cringe, 2,000,000 people in England could be eligible for weight loss surgery, according to a paper in JRSM Open. That figure far exceeds previous estimates of eligibility in England for bariatric surge ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 17 2014 - 4:09pm

Humans- Ruining The Rainforests Since Pretty Much Forever

If you ever watched/read the advocacy cartoon/book/Darwinian morality play "FernGully: The Last Rainforest" you might think that ruining the rainforests is a modern phenomenon brought on by McDonald's hamburgers or guitar makers or whoever ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2014 - 12:32pm

Scientists As Rock Stars: Big Names Lead To Bigger Citations?

Can a big name lead to a boost, even for low-profile work? Indeed it can, according to an analysis which found that scientific papers written by well-known scholars get more attention than they otherwise would receive because of their authors’ high profile ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2014 - 5:29pm