Science & Society

IARC Is Disconnected From Reality- That's Why Its Next Director Shouldn't Be An Epidemiologist

If you read corporate media journalism articles about epidemiology in the United States, you are not wrong for distrusting science more than ever. Using nothing more than statistics, every week some new trace chemical is an "endocrine disruptor", ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 13 2018 - 10:44am

Mass Hysteria: Are You One Of 10,000s Celebrating Surviving End Of World?- It's Normal To Still Get Panic Attacks For Weeks

This is another of my posts to help victims of fake doomsdays. For the last three weeks we've had constant PM's and comments on Doomsday Debunked as a result of a viral hoax that pranked probably hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Many o ...

Article - Robert Walker - Apr 19 2018 - 10:25pm

Defining Man and Woman In The Age of Transgender Self ID Absolutism.

T ransgender activism must not prevent people from using their common everyday senses to tell who is who within reason.   We now live in a world where someone can insist that they are a transgender woman with their ID changed.  Yet insist that if any imag ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Apr 24 2018 - 8:08am

The T-Index: More Meaningful Metrics For Scientists

Academics direly need objective, meaningful metrics to judge the impact their publications have on their field of expertise. Nowadays any regular Joe will be able to show many authored papers in their CV, and it will be impossible to objectively assess the ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Apr 24 2018 - 5:21am

Youtubers Earn $1 Million A Year (Estimate) For Doomsday Videos- Teens Panic And Become Suicidal- Time To End Ad Support

These channels specialize in uploading evidence of 'Nibiru', a modern myth, a planet that supposedly is about to hit Earth or fly past, always in the near future. This will seem absurd to you if you have a decent scientific background, but these ...

Article - Robert Walker - Apr 25 2018 - 7:01pm

Violent People With Less Access To Guns Would Be A Homicide Deterrent

While criminals will get guns illegally, and people who use guns to commit suicide may not be deterred by anything, people who are already prone to violence would be deterred from homicide by gun law changes, according to a new article which argues that fe ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2018 - 1:56pm

Yes, Near Certainty Hit By Tiny Asteroid Within Centuries- Chance It Hits You Miniscule- $50 Million Could Retire 70% Of Risk

This is another of those sensationalist doomsday stories in the red top tabloids scaring people. The stories say that we are 100% certain to be hit by an asteroid. Well, yes, for small asteroids, but we are 100% certain to be hit by lightning too, many ti ...

Article - Robert Walker - May 2 2018 - 9:09am

Biological Xenophobia?

Emperor Meiji (明治天皇,  the 122nd Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, who reigned 1867 to 1912), presided over a time of rapid change in the Empire of Japan, as the nation quickly changed from an isolationist feudal state to a ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - May 11 2018 - 11:51am

Science Triumphs At The EPA. For Now.

In The Neonic Ban: A Scientific Fraud Becomes Enshrined In EU Regulatory Law, I described the many elements of corruption that led to Europe’s recently announced ban on neonic insecticides (“neonics”) which is based on the fallacy that they are responsibl ...

Article - Henry I. Miller - May 25 2018 - 8:28am

Nominations For 2018 Sartorius & Science Prize In Regenerative Medicine And Cell Therapy

If you are a scientist who received their PhD/MD within the past 10 years you can apply for the 2018 Sartorius&Science Prize in Regenerative Medicine and Cell Therapy by October 1, 2018. The Sartorius Group is a pharmaceutical and laboratory equipment ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 21 2018 - 12:23pm