Science & Society

Can Twitter Address Specific Health Issues?

Doctors cringe at the idea that patients may come in with specific information they got from the Internet; an athlete may do something good and the Wikipedia entry will say they are the greatest American since Abe Lincoln, while the entry for Science 2.0 ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2014 - 4:01pm

Penny Stock Peer Review

Not the JVC peer review ring, an actual gambling ring. Credit:  China Daily It's something of a mild joke in science circles- you can figure out who is peer-reviewing your paper by looking for the common author in the citations you 'missed' ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 14 2014 - 9:28am

Medicare Breast Cancer Costs Skyrocketed A Decade Ago, But No More Were Helped

While almost everyone agrees that the American health system was not perfect- high quality, but some could not afford it- the solution may not have been more government spending, since government was not spending money all that wisely well before 2009.  Ta ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 11 2014 - 4:30am

53 To 15 Percent: The Drop-Off In Women From Medical School To Academic Medicine

There is a subset of academia that contends it lacks diversity. They have a point. While at the undergraduate levels there are lots of handicapped people, minorities, women and even Republicans, by the time grad school is finished there are fewer of all o ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2014 - 11:14pm

Obese US Firefighters Don't Get Told To Lose Weight

You never see them in calendars, but there are obese firefighters- and they don't get told to lose weight by their doctors. As we all know, there are many healthy obese people, the notion that BMI is some magic button for diabetic and cardiovascular ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2014 - 10:30am

Sexist Weather And Hermaphroditic Frogs: The Problem Of Faux Peer Review

In today's Wall Street Journal, I have an article discussing recent problems in peer review. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 23 2015 - 10:59am

Welcome Back, LeBron: Why Catching Boomerang Employees Is Smart

Until a week before basketball player LeBron James returned to the NBA team that drafted him as a rookie, the Cleveland Cavaliers, owner Dan Gilbert had a scathing letter on his website criticizing James. Many fans had thrown out his jerseys. Suddenly, af ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2014 - 9:47am

Future: Millennials Benefit From Leisure Browsing During Work

While older people wonder if modern connectivity behavior is leading to a lack of coherent thinking, they tend to forget previous generations worried over that too- because the next to come along couldn't use a slide rule. A new study has found that, ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2014 - 3:00am

If Scientists Were Wall Street Executives, Fraudsters Would Be In Jail

Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta, Robert Harding Chair in global child health and policy and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto says in BMJ that criminal sanctions are necessary to deter growing research miscon ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2014 - 8:32pm

Women At Work: Self-Identity Impacts Childcare Balance (Though Men's Doesn't)

A new small-scale sociology survey finds that the more a woman self-identifies with her profession, the more paid hours she works and the less time she spends with her children, though childcare balance is more equal between a couple.  Yet the more a woma ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2014 - 10:01am