Science & Society

Half Of Biomedical Studies Aren't Reproducible – And What We Need To Do About That

What if I told you that half of the studies published in scientific journals today – the ones upon which news coverage of medical advances is often based – won’t hold up under scrutiny? You might say I had gone mad. No one would ever tolerate that kind of ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 28 2015 - 7:53pm

In The Government-Funded Big Science World, We Don't Value Cross-Disciplinary Research

Until the early 1900s, scholars took it for granted that they could draw on any area of knowledge to inform their thinking on the major questions of the day. Medieval polymaths such as Hildegard of Bingen (medicine, linguistics, botany, art, philosophy an ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 3 2015 - 8:00am

Drinking Tends To Wind Down After Couples Settle Down

 Research on alcohol-use disorders consistently shows problem drinking decreases as we age. Basically, we mature in young adulthood. Psychologists believe they have found evidence that marriage can cause dramatic drinking reductions even among people with ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 3 2015 - 7:30am

Junk Science Report Card

The American Council on Science and Health has been single-minded about promoting evidence-based decision-making since 1978.  The Council was formed in response to groups doing just the opposite of science, they instead perpetuated and sometimes even crea ...

Article - Gil Ross - Aug 9 2015 - 8:20am

Online Journal, The Winnower, will Issue DOI's to Reddit r/science AMA's.

The open access, open post publication peer review journal, The Winnower will issue DOI's to all past and future Reddit r/Science AMA's.  The people who write on reddit, sometimes called "redditors", are known for having a large impact ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Aug 4 2015 - 8:09pm

Environmental Groups Continue Their Harassment Of Scientists

US Right to Know of Oakland, California, is using Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to suppress and harass scientists and imply they have unethical links to the agricultural biotechnology industry- in short, the group insists scientists are being ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 7 2015 - 6:47am

Soda Tactics To Confuse Science And Protect Profits

The latest dubious tactic of global soft-drink giant Coca-Cola has now been revealed for what it is- a move by an industry with a threatened financial future to confuse science, policy and the public, in order to buy time, and protect profits. ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 12 2015 - 8:36am

Male Doctors Are More Likely To Be Sued

Male doctors have nearly a 250 percent greater chance of having medico-legal action taken against them than their female counterparts. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2015 - 2:01pm

Baby Budgeting: Egg Freezing Revolutionizes Family Planning

Female fertility begins to decline at an accelerated rate after the age of 35—however, more and more women are delaying having children for several reasons, including pursuing careers, having not found the right partner, and simply not being ready to have ...

Article - American Council ... - Aug 15 2015 - 8:00am

Nutritionist Attacked After Debunking ‘Glyphosate In Milk’ Study- Here's How She Responded

As reporter Keith Kloor noted in his recent  Nature   story on the targeting of biotech professors and science advocates,U.S. Right to Know has issued yet a new Freedom of Information Act demand to Washington State University for the email records of Assoc ...

Article - Genetic Literacy ... - Sep 14 2015 - 8:33pm