Science & Society

3 Ways People Get It Wrong About Online Journalism Versus Newspapers

Americans lead the world in adult science literacy, it has nearly tripled since 1988. What other trend occurred since 1988? A lot fewer people read newspapers. If people are smarter about science than ever, and they read fewer newspapers than ever, newspa ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2014 - 4:52pm

Not Just Americans: Canadian Environmentalists Are Irrationally Opposed To Natural Gas Too

Quebecers are particularly hostile toward the development of natural gas, but this aversion is driven less by 'not in my backyard' (NIMBY) attitudes than 'not in anyone's backyard (NIABY), according to a comparative study of 2,500 Queb ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2014 - 4:50pm

Would You Prevent The 1850 Irish Potato Famine If It Meant GMOs?

How effective has the war on science by Greenpeace, Union of Concerned Scientists and their progressive donor base been? Very effective. Effective enough that even when reading about the Irish Potato Famine of 1850, which caused millions to suffer and die ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2014 - 9:36pm

Nurses Can Help Prevent Anti-Vaccination Beliefs

In US states that strongly embrace myriad anti-science beliefs, like California, Washington and New York, dangerous preventable diseases like Whooping Cough have come roaring back after a long hiatus, due to a belief by cultural elites that as long as une ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 14 2014 - 12:25pm

The Dangers Of Data Mining

On my first day at the Erice School of Science Journalism this past week I attended a lecture by Alessio Cimarelli, who discussed "When Data Journalism meets Science: a "Hackathon"". The speaker (who owns the site called "dataninja ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 21 2014 - 9:53am

Food Babe Learns The Unlisted Controversial Ingredient In Budweiser

Vani Hari, the Food Babe, has demanded answers Self-proclaimed Food Babe, Vani Hari has an online petition as k ing demanding that Anheuser-Busch and Miller ...

Article - Norm Benson - Apr 3 2015 - 5:55pm

Politics On Twitter- A Whole Lot Of Plebians Echoing A Few Elites

The hive mind is alive and well on Twitter. Rather than being a participatory forum, an analysis of 290,119,348 tweets from 193,522 "politically engaged" Twitter users during the 2012 presidential campaign conventions and debates found little cr ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2014 - 10:02am

When Corporate Journalism Fails, Citizen Journalism Fills The Gap

Western journalists dutifully issue accolades for friends in the business who are killed covering military conflicts- but they are primarily highly-paid elites and very much do not want to take unnecessary risks. When you add in the complexities of a dict ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2014 - 8:29am

Mental Illness And Crime: What The Legacy Of Dorothea Dix Hath Wrought

In the 1830s, jails were an all-purpose solution for a lot of issues. Inmates lived in squalor and people truly did not want to be there so there was a lot less crime. The downside was that nobody really cared about the people who did not belong there, lik ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 12 2018 - 7:12pm

In Europe, E-cigarettes Are Mostly Used By Smokers Or People Trying To Quit

An analysis of e-cigarette uptake across 27 European countries published in Tobacco Control finds that they are mostly used by current smokers or would-be quitters- approximately 29 million people. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2014 - 7:54pm