Science & Society

COVID-19: It Increased Trust In Science Among Germans And Lowered It Among Americans

There is little good resulting from the pandemic, except for the fantastic innovation behind the vaccines. A few months ago politicians told companies to stop being greedy and pay more money to people who stopped working when government paid people not to ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 17 2022 - 1:56pm

On TV, Government Law Enforcement Can Do No Wrong, But In Reality Databases Are Wrong Nearly 20% Of The Time

If you watched film and television from an alien spacecraft, you'd wonder how the same government that created a CDC which needs 6 weeks to tell the public that lettuce has E. coli on it can also create "Mission Impossible" plots and shows w ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2022 - 9:46am

Putin’s Information War: Winning Or Losing?

Putin’s Information War: Winning or Losing? Remarks for World Talent Economy Forum, March 21,2022 Fred Phillips   ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Mar 18 2022 - 6:30pm

During The Pandemic, Plants Became The New Pets And Greenhouses Boomed

No one will miss the COVID-19 pandemic. Except maybe greenhouses. New surveys show about one out of every three people began gardening in 2020 because they were home more due to SARS-CoV-2 restrictions and worries. Many also put in new grass lawns and did ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2022 - 10:19am

Stumbling Toward The Metaverse

Many are the sci-fi encounters with races that have transcended their physical bodies, having moved on to dwell on some energetic or spiritual plane. The tales skip the backstories, so we wonder: Did these aliens get where they are via Darwinian evolution ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Apr 15 2022 - 3:22pm

The Alternative Meat Industry Wants Solar Power Style Mandates And Subsidies

A new report says that the alternative meat industry, plant-based products designed to look and taste like meat, raised $8 billion even during the pandemic. That's a big success. They want more but oddly lament that most of their money comes from the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 19 2022 - 12:41pm

Will The Ukraine War Bring The World A New Chocolate Pilot?

The last time the Russians went to war in Europe, it was the Cold War.  After World War II ended, the USSR wanted Germany to remain relatively weak. The US instead believed that part of the reason behind World War II was a Germany that had been too heavily ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 20 2022 - 10:24am

The NIEHS War On Science Has New Footing During The Biden Administration

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences may have science in its name, but they remain since the earliest part of the last decade a group funded by taxpayers that exists to scare taxpayers about science.  Their in-house publication Environme ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 2 2022 - 10:28am

The Man Who Killed More People?

Veritasium has come in for quite a bit of stick recently over his videos on electricity. However, recently I came across this one, entitled The Man Who Accidentally Killed The Most People In History. It contains so much history, most of which I already ha ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - May 6 2022 - 5:49am

Antisemitism Reached A New High Globally In 2021

In 2001, after the US World Trade Centers were destroyed in a terrorist attack, assaults on middle-eastern buildings and people in San Francisco went up. Yet the middle eastern people attacked were Jewish, not Muslim. A common sentiment among intelligentsi ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2022 - 9:14am