Science & Society

CPAC, Michael Knowles, And The Final Solution For Transgenderism.

M ichael Knowles said at CPAC and I quote “Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely”.  He would claim that he means to get people to not engage in the ideology in public.  The thing is what do you do with all of the people who are trans ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Mar 6 2023 - 10:59am

COVID-19 Quarantine Adherence: 25% Lied About Complying, 70% Were Women

During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a lot of confusion about what would help mitigate risk and what would not, and when rules seemed arbitrary (e.g. you can go to a tattoo parlor but not get a haircut) it may have caused resentment- and therefore quiet ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 7 2023 - 10:15am

NIMBY: Superficial Allies Of Sexual Minorities, Unless They're Neighbors

NIMBY- not in my back yard- is an acronym for those allies who express support for a cause, as long as it is 'somewhere else.' Wind power, for example, is well-liked by people on the coasts of the US and Norway, until government decides to actual ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 8 2023 - 9:25am

Obamacare Linked To Over-Prescribing Antibiotics

An analysis of over 4,300,000 patients in 8,119 161 primary care visits found that publicly insured people, those using the Affordable Care Act public exchanges subsidized by government, were more likely to be given inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 16 2023 - 5:31am

Remote Working Is Exporting Gentrification, And Pricing Out Locals

For eight years I have studied digital nomadism, the millennial trend for working remotely from anywhere around the world. I am often asked if it is driving gentrification. Before COVID upended the way we work, I would usually tell journalists that the nu ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 1 2023 - 5:01am

TED And TikTok: SciComm Student Credibility Ranking Shows Future Science Journalism May Be In Trouble

America doesn't have a science literacy problem, at least in a relative sense. Though only 29 percent of American adults can demonstrate good science literacy, that is still enough to be number one in the world.(1) ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 7 2023 - 11:49am

Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder On The Psychological Literature For Transgender Teen Treatment.

S abine Hossenfelder attempts to answer the question of transgender youth healthcare by applying a physicist mindset to the literature on this matter.   I've commented on this to her elsewhere, but, the fundamental error is applying a physicist minds ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Apr 29 2023 - 4:12pm

Ms. Right Stuff: The Lovelace Space Program And The Mercury 13 Women

You've heard of the Mercury 7 astronauts; they became the backbone of the NASA program and inspiration to an entire generation of young people.   But you may not have known there were also a Mercury 13- and they were women. In the early years of the ...

Article - News Staff - May 5 2023 - 6:56am

Did Coca-Cola Suppress Unfavorable Studies Or Is This Another Systemic Conspiracy Story By US Right To Know?

U.S. Right To Know, an industry-funded trade group that was created to harass and intimidate scientists, has teamed up with a few academic allies to promote 129 Freedom of Information Act requests they submitted related to Coca-Cola.  To harass scientists ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 5 2023 - 7:51am

Science Without Borders- A Message From The USERN President

The USERN organization (Universal Scientific Education and Research Network) will soon issue its next bulletin, to which I contribute with an opening message in the function of the president of the organization. I thought the contents of the message would ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - May 9 2023 - 5:52am