Science & Society

Environmental Activism Puts NYC At Risk Of Future Flooding During Hurricanes

Whether or not a coastal city floods during a hurricane depends on the storm, tide and sea level, and now a team of climate scientists show that the risk of New York City flooding has increased dramatically during the industrial era as a result of human-c ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2015 - 2:19pm

American Council On Science And Health Embraces Transparency: Will Others Follow?

If you get money from a corporation, are you for sale? It’s obviously a silly question, since almost everyone in America signs the backs of checks ratherr than the front of them, yet much of the public tends to think that if a scientist gets funding from ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 30 2015 - 5:42am

Process Labels: Bridging The Informational Gap Or Confusing Consumers?

In the early days of food labeling and regulations, it was just about mandating honesty. If you go to buy mayonnaise, you shouldn't have to wonder if it is mayonnaise (1), and then labels became a marketing distinction. Better ingredients meant a bet ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 4 2018 - 1:54pm

Online Market For Invasive Plants Is Booming

Goldenrod, Himalayan balsam, Chinese windmill palm: three plants, one problem. All are native to continents other than Europe, but were introduced to Switzerland as garden or ornamental plants. At some point they "escaped" into the wild, where t ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2015 - 11:30am

Paper Ceiling For Women: Media (Including Social) Prefer Men

"John, Jim, Jake, Josh, Jack...and Jane." Five out of every six names that appear in the media today are those of men, a McGill-led sociology team claims. Indeed, the more mentions a person receives in the media, the higher the chances are that ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2015 - 3:34pm

Houston Is A Lot More Tolerant Of Immigrants Than Copenhagen Is

Residents of Copenhagen, Denmark, are more likely than Houstonians to believe immigration threatens their country's culture. That's one of several findings in a new survey from Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2015 - 11:23am

Bias Of Physicians Results In Low Quality Care For LGBT And Disabled Patients

Physicians' unconscious attitudes toward special patient populations like disabled and LGBT patients may be partially responsible for poorer overall health observed in these communities, according to a Rowan University professor of family medicine. P ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 11 2015 - 10:15am

Crime Shows May Reduce Sexual Assault

A new study reveals viewers of "Law and Order" have a better grasp of sexual consent than viewers of other crime dramas such as "CSI" or "NCIS," suggesting that individuals who watch programs in which sexual predators are pun ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2015 - 3:00am

Options For Patients: The Menu Approach Works

A significant proportion of medical treatment decisions are not clear-cut. How can patients and doctors know is better for a specific patient-- medication or surgery, therapy, or even no treatment? If medication, which class of drugs? If surgery, what typ ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2015 - 12:19pm

The Alleged Perversion of Geoff Marcy and Sexual Harassment.

P erversion and sexual assault is what Geoff Marcy is accused of not “harassment” or treating a conference like a “dating market”.   In our collective zeal to protect women from unwelcome but otherwise ordinary advances let us not conflate asking someone ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 15 2015 - 2:13pm