Science & Society

Alternative Title:“Inevitable ‘Society of Walls’ versus the True Legacy of Donald Trump: Dear Donald, please reform Academia!” Confusion and misinformation are so intense in our time that even my…

In Scotland, traditional New Year greeting is Lang may yer lum reek meaning “long may your chimney smoke”.  So may you never be short of fuel for your fire. So, if I understand this article…

If you are sick and need to be readmitted to the hospital after already spending time there, your chances of being allowed back in have dropped since the weight of federal law has imposed penalties…

Nibiru easily ranks as the pseudoscience doomsday scenario I get most questions about. Many people, including teenagers, are terrified that we are all about to be killed by a planet called Nibiru…

We've had fake news world ending prophecies for centuries. But now we have exaggerated scientific scenarios to add to the list, so that we can get scared by asteroid impacts, nuclear war, runaway…

We've had prophecies of the world ending for centuries. But now we face countless fake and exaggerated end of world stories based on science and pseudoscience, which are spread, together with out and…

The City Colleges of Chicago treats adjunct faculty like full timers when it comes to workloads but pays us worse than a full time fast food worker in Chicago IL.  I am the treasurer of this…

John Glenn one of the first seven NASA Astronauts and a former Senator of many terms has died at the age of 95.  His life was rich and full and at this point his loss is not a tragedy.  All…

If there was one theme that qualified the new politically correct definition of morality in higher education it was the idea that the new Affirmative Action professoriate wanted to do away with…

Great Scott! Climate Change Deniers Accept Models! A recent study of old log books, coupled with the use of computer modelling of ice estimates show that the summer sea ice edge then was further from…