Science & Society

Foreign-Trained Physicians Frustrated At Lack Of Residency Positions

The United States has the world's best medical care. Wealthy people from all over the planet abandon their country's government health plans and journey to the US for elite treatment.  ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2014 - 3:00pm

Scientists Behaving Badly

Its been a bad week for science, particularly for the science related to food production. The notoriously flawed "Seralini Study" about tumors in rats fed GMOs is being republished in another journal after having been retracted. Another paper ha ...

Article - Steve Savage - Jun 26 2014 - 6:09pm

Calling Bee.S. On The Pollinator Apocalypse- Don't Make The Perfect The Enemy Of The Good

Generally speaking, when a politician goes on television and says he is creating a special task force to look at a product, you know what happened; someone wrote about it in the New York Times and someone did a poll and someone else told him it would look ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 27 2014 - 6:56pm

The Upside To Foreign Land Grabs- It Could Feed 300 Million People

The land known as Israel today was once pretty bleak. Mark Twain spoke of the barren landscape and lack of people when it was owned by colonial European powers. Nothing much was there. But then Jews began buying it up. They planted crops and modernized ir ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2014 - 10:12pm

Facebook Users Don't Recommend Products Because It Seems Too Pushy- Religion, Politics Are Just Fine

Facebook has more than 1.23 billion active users. Most of them are not actually friends with each other and because they are not friends with each other, they feel pushy recommending products or services. They're fine hammering on politics and religi ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 8:57am

Will Coupons And Discounts On Stuff Lead To Healthier Behavior?

A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down but apparently the public will also happily accept movie tickets, cell phone minutes and discounts on air travel. A private South African health plan, Discovery Health, increased patient use of preventive car ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 11:00am

Live Like The Poor, Die Like The Rich- More Money Does Not Solve Health Care Issues

Advocates for subsidized health care insist we face a black and white issue- the rich have health care and the poor do not. Yet poor people in developing nations are healthier than wealthier countries.  Hans Rosling,  Professor of International Health at ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 12:00pm

Kids, Don't Imbibe: That's How Alcoholic Hobos Started

Surveys of 20 homeless, alcohol-dependent patients who had four or more annual visits to Bellevue Hospital's emergency department for two consecutive years determined that all began drinking in childhood or adolescence, and 13 reported having alcohol ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2014 - 12:00pm

The Real Magic Moment When Unwed Parents Get Married Isn't What You Think

Unwed parents are becoming more common- some estimates are that more children will be born out of wedlock than in it by 2016. Unwed parents may eventually get married, though perhaps not to the person they first had children with. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2014 - 1:51am

After The Spanish Civil War, The Subversive Ways To Include Gays In Cinema

The gay marriage movement may seem like a modern development but it had its roots in World War II culture. By having homosexual characters in comedies, the concept was less threatening and still passed the censorship of film boards. An article in the jour ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2014 - 10:15am