Science & Society

Poor People Can't Even Afford To Donate Kidneys

Kidney donations have been in decline and a study in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN) says it has discovered why; it's cheaper to get a kidney than to give one.   For their study, Jagbir Gill, MD, MPH of University of British ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2014 - 11:31pm

More People In The UK Complain About Doctors- Media Implicated

When you get something for free, how much complaining can you really do? Apparently quite a bit, in the UK, according to a new report. There has been a large increase in complaints, which may be due to wider social trends rather than localized issues. A l ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2014 - 9:09pm

African-American Homeownership Became More Risky In The 1990s

In the 1990s, it was claimed that minorities were less likely to get home mortgages 30 years after anti-discrimination laws were added to specify housing, so policies were instituted requiring justification when people were denied a home loan. As a result ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2014 - 11:25am

92 Percent Of People Eat What They Put On Their Plates

There is a lot of concern about food waste and it may be due to leftovers that never get used but it probably isn't the bulk of Americans- 92 percent of people eat everything. Obviously that can be bad for people in other ways if people put a lot on ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2014 - 7:00pm

Science Magazine's use of transgender women shows educated people can be ignorant.

Science Magazine used Transwomen as props on a cover that had nothing to do with the contents. All it did was stigmatize a marginalized group of people and probably reinforce bias among members of a privileged group, the American Association for the Advanc ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jul 23 2014 - 1:28pm

If You Care About The Organic Revolution, Disavow Mike Adams

Revolutions are messy business, they require participation by a type of personality that is not very savory; militant, bombastic, a little crazy.  ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 26 2014 - 12:13pm

Moral Identity, Empathy And Justice: Why Some People Donate More To Charity

In America, where categorization becomes easy because there are two main political parties, it is well-known that right-wing people donate more to charity. This makes sense; people who believe in smaller government should be willing to help their fellow ma ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2014 - 12:01pm

Comparing The Risks Of Treatments For Esophageal Cancer- Review

A new paper in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute addresses the risks associated with the growing popularity of endoscopic resection in the treatment of localized, early-stage esophageal cancer. Researchers found that the more traditional surgic ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 28 2014 - 11:59am

The 2008 Financial Crisis Was Not Caused By Short Selling

In the summer of 2008, the US economy was clipping along as well as it had ever been. There were people in the know who recognized that actual economic output was down and the drivers were housing sales, including President Bush and his economic advisors ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2014 - 3:00am

Rural Studies Show Informal Child Care Works

Scholars studying the child care sector in Kansas, particularly in rural areas, have found that informal child care services create a large economic impact in the state.  Informal child care services include unlicensed facilities, unreported day care serv ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2014 - 1:00am