Science & Society

More Data Won't Sway Science Deniers

At the Biotech Literacy Project Boot Camp, held a week ago at the U.C. Davis World Food Center, I was on a journalism roundtable with Brooke Borel, Keith Kloor and Razib Khan, moderated by Professor Kevin Folta, and I was asked about the most important thi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 11 2015 - 2:25pm

Food Waste Paradox- Cooking From Scratch Leads To More Garbage

Food wasted means money wasted which can be an expensive problem especially in homes with financial constraints. A new study from the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and the Getulio Vargas Foundation, shows that the top causes of food waste in such homes inclu ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2015 - 12:33pm

Homophobic Europe May Be Paving Way For Rise In HIV Cases

Europe's most homophobic countries may be paving the way for a rise in HIV cases among gay and bisexual men, according to new research published in the journal AIDS. An international team of researchers from Europe and the US looked at HIV-related se ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2015 - 5:32am

NRDC Wants To Ban Food Flavorings- Even Natural Ones

The Natural Resources Defense Council environmental lobbying group has created a coalition and they have drafted a petition demanding that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ban eight food additives they believe are carcinogens, in the interests of publ ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 10 2015 - 4:12pm

What The 'Dad Bod' Phenomenon Says About Media And Culture

Everyone, it seems, has been talking about “dad bod” – what defines it, who possesses it and whether or not women actually love it. It all began with an innocuous article on a college news website, penned by a Clemson University student named Mackenzie Pe ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 11 2015 - 2:30pm

Peer Review Is Subjective And The Quality Is Highly Variable

Peer review in science, in which independent scientists who are experts on the subject assess papers, but this system frequently receives harsh criticism about its effectiveness and transparency.  It came to light again in a humanities study which had a c ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 14 2015 - 11:00am

Organic Farmers Protest "Responsibly Grown" Food Labels In Whole Foods

Organic farming has had a pretty good run. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 12 2015 - 10:57am

Ebola News Coverage Linked To Public Panic

Using Twitter and Google search trend data in the wake of the very limited U.S. Ebola outbreak of October 2014, a team of researchers from Arizona State University, Purdue University and Oregon State University have found that news media is extraordinaril ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2015 - 6:58am

Environmental Activism Is Successful, Science Not So Much

The environmental movement has been successful, according to humanities scholars at Michigan State University. Certainly that is where the money is. Though environmental groups and pro-science groups are industry and politically funded, only the pro-scien ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2015 - 10:30am

Journalists Must Get Better At Science

Media are important. Especially the media we trust. One might express the effect of a piece of journalism (J) about, say, a particular drug or food, as a factor of media authority (A), multiplied by the size of audience (D), divided by the availability of ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 17 2015 - 10:00am