Science & Society

With fires happening in South America, the left has such dominance over social media in America they convinced the public that policies of right-wing leader Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil were to blame,…

“A great scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar…

China bans some chemicals whether or not the evidence shows it, and the United States should be more like communist dictatorships, suggests a Center for Biological Diversity blogger in a press…

In America, more women than men receive Ph.D.s and at the faculty level are not 2:1 more likely to be offered a job. Not so in France. Only 35 percent of researchers at the French National Centre for…

I didn't even know Scientific American Blogs still existed. They do, they were just irrelevant and no one remembered until a few days ago. Given their recent foray into nonsense, it can be the next…

America is producing more Ph.D.s than ever but federal funding for academic grants cannot keep pace with the expansion in university halls, bolstered by well-financed Science, Technology, Engineering…

The following table shows differences in responses to the science module of items deployed by the GSS during 2004 and 2006* by partisan identification. Some of the questions are inverted for viewer…

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/11/lies-dirty-tricks-and-45-million-k... This past election, California voters shot down an initiative to put labels on GMO foods, which adds to a puzzle about…

http://www.sciencecodex.com/node/68900/edit?destination=admin%2Fcontent%... http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1767/20131193.short?r... It's election season and that means you will…

It's the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson's polemic, "Silent Spring", which means there will be no end to her 'impact'. Impact, of course, can be good or bad.  Carson is considered the…