Science & Society

FDA Is Providing 'Relief' From Food Label Bureaucracy During COVID-19, So How Important Is It?

Many people have recently discovered that the U.S. CDC is actually not that useful. For some, it came when CDC refused to send hospitals coronavirus tests until they proved to CDC their patients had coronavirus. Then, when the Trump administration forced t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 22 2020 - 12:31pm

Did You Get Fat From The Air You Breathe Or The Pizza You Inhale?

You may have heard of the Freshman 15; the weight gain some college students experience their first year, when they have unlimited dining at the university cafeteria. Coronavirus may leave behind a new pandemic when people emerge from their homes and disco ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 28 2020 - 8:41am

Collective Layoffs Have Repercussions For Companies

Collective layoffs of large groups of workers have been common during the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020. A new paper might inform possible impacts because it analyzed 556 collective layoffs announced between December 2018 and November 2019 across different ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2020 - 1:01am

Anthony Fauci, The Straight Logic Of A Lab As Covid-19 Stepping Stone Between Nature And Pandemic.

D r Fauci is the most trusted public scientist on all matters regarding SARS-COV-2, however he gets his pure logic wrong on the subject of Covid-19’s origin. That scientific research was the transport mechanism for this virus from Southern China to centra ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 5 2020 - 11:26am

Gig Economy Workers Suffer During The Pandemic, And California's Ill-Timed Delivery Service Lawsuit Just Made It Worse

If you had a choice, would you rather set your own hours or work around your schedule around family needs, or would you prefer being forced to go into an office where a corporate manager applies constant pressure to do more in the same amount of time and y ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 5 2020 - 5:06pm

Coronavirus Has Caused Democrats To Move Back Toward Trust In Science

A year ago, and for this entire century, the nexus of anti-vaccine beliefs and other denial of science has been Democratic states. While places like Mississippi and Alabama had vaccine rates near 100 percent, an infectious disease crisis that began on the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 21 2020 - 5:01pm

Coronavirus: How To Make Informed Scientific Choices On Covid 19 Mask And Medicines.

H ow to scientifically answer questions like wear a mask or not?  Anyone and everyone can think scientifically.  It is thinking systematically and critically about the information and considering the ethics of your choice given that information. It is als ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 22 2020 - 5:38pm

Domestic Violence Incidents Rise In Los Angeles, Indianapolis During COVID-19 Lockdown

Two cities, Los Angeles and Indianapolis, reported higher than usual domestic violence incidents once COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions were implemented in March. For their paper, the scholars analyzed police calls for service before and during the corona ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2020 - 2:33pm

Riot Or Resistance- Media Framing And Bias Shapes The Public's View Of Protests

A teenager held her phone steady enough to capture the final moments of George Perry Floyd’s life as he apparently suffocated under the weight of a Minneapolis police officer’s knee on his neck. The video went viral. What happened next has played out time ...

Article - The Conversation - May 30 2020 - 11:11am

Business Insider Takes A Trip Down 2019 Chemophobia Lane

Thanks to COVID-19, the public has gotten a lot more skeptical about claims that chemicals, food, and medicine are corporate conspiracies created to replace natural products that worked just fine. Even more ridiculous has been the belief that millions and ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 3 2020 - 12:41pm