Science & Society

Real Climate Policy Progress Is Happening

The recent commitments by the leaders of G7 nations to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide to 40-70% below current levels by 2050, and to eliminate the use of fossil fuels altogether by 2100, have raised several questions. Are these objectives feasible? Ar ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 17 2015 - 12:00pm

Alcohol Is Good For You? The Public Is Not Convinced

Decades ago, the American Council on Science and Health said that saturated fats were not as bad as was being portrayed and replacements would be worse. Natural Resources Defense Council and other scare-story-of-the-month groups had sided with yet another ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2015 - 11:21am

Do 'Science Popularizers' Care Too Much About Religion?

Richard Dawkins and Francis Collins have dramatically different roles when it comes to science. One is a science popularizer and extremely anti-religious while one runs the $30 billion National Institute of Health and is a religious believer, but also writ ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2015 - 7:01pm

Anti-Corporate Framing By Activists Is Limiting Child Health Improvements In Other Countries

Partnerships with multinational companies like Coca-Cola in child health programs can work to help save lives but decades of well-funded public relations campaigns against corporations by NGOs has turned letting companies fund programs into an ethical min ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2015 - 8:30am

Surgical Tourism Has Downsides- Even When It's In The US

Some of the nation's largest businesses encourage employees to travel to large U.S. medical centers for complex elective surgical procedures. As part of these medical travel programs, companies negotiate lower prices for patients to receive high-qual ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2015 - 8:00am

Female Managers Sometimes Increase The Gender Wage Gap

Working women are "leaning in" and supporting more females in leadership roles, but a new study finds that having a female manager doesn't necessarily equate to higher salaries for female employees. Instead, women can sometimes take an earn ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2015 - 10:31am

Subsidies Double Alternative Energy Capacity Since 2005

Renewable energy targets mandates and subsidies now in place in 164 countries powered the growth of solar, wind and other green technologies to record-breaking energy generation capacity in 2014. So to advocates that means CO2 emissions and growth do not ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2015 - 7:13am

One Agricultural Scientist's Concerns About The Future Of The Food Supply

I’m generally optimistic about the ability of the world’s farmers to continue to feed the growing population, and also to satisfy the increased food demand of the growing middle class in previously poor countries. That hope is based on the amazing track re ...

Article - Steve Savage - Jun 20 2015 - 6:42am

Child Fitness Worse Than Feared- And Obesity Is Not To Blame

Child fitness levels are falling at an even faster rate than first feared- and it has nothing to do with obesity, according to a new study. Of more than 300 pupils aged between 10 and 11 who took part, the researchers expected that children with a lower BM ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2015 - 10:00am

The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Here, Declare Hysterical Academics

There is no longer any doubt: We are entering a mass extinction that threatens humanity's existence, according to a rather ridiculous claim by doomsday prophet Professor Paul Ehrlich, the same author of the Population Bomb who has been saying this sam ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2015 - 11:22am