Philosophy & Ethics
- David Nutt Drug Harm Scale Revisited: His Science Was Flawed, Say Fellow Researchers
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In 2009, UK drugs advisor Dr. David Nutt was relieved of his duties due to controversial views on the harmfulness of different drugs and the lack of evidence behind current drug policy. Various claims were that this was politically motivated and concern ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 6 2011 - 12:00pm
- Publish Or Perish- Is That Journal Peer-Reviewed?
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Once upon a time, journals were horribly expensive to produce and to read. Your research might only be read by 200 people but those 200 people knew the work was vetted by reviewers. It had a quality standard. Open access publishing is a blessing and a c ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 20 2011 - 11:05am
- Skepticism Banned? Backlash Against Lower Evidence Standards For Alternative Medicine In Canada
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Should the least-proven medical treatments have fewer guidelines than evidence-based medicine? ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2011 - 2:17pm
- Radiation Effects: Did Nobel Prize Winner Hermann Muller Lie?
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Edward Calabrese, an environmental toxicologist at University of Massachusetts Amherst, says he has evidence that oNobel Prize winner Hermann Muller knowingly lied when he claimed in 1946 that there is no safe level of radiation exposure. ...
Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2011 - 4:21pm
- Lobbyists Undercut Global Food Security And Science Acceptance In Europe
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Powerful lobby groups opposed to genetically modified (GM) food are threatening public acceptance of the technology in Europe, research suggests. They are also hampering Europe's response to the global challenge of securing food supplies for current ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 23 2012 - 11:47pm
- Laws Of Nature And Natural Justice
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Laws of Nature and Natural Justice What are the 'laws of nature', the natural laws which underly the thing which we perceive as natural justice? Aristotle discussed natural justice in terms of what 'ought to be'. His view was that if ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Sep 25 2011 - 2:52pm
- Hypothetical: Framing Questions Influences Behavior And Promotes Bias
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Hypothetically, if someone told you that a hypothetical question can influence your judgments or behavior, would you believe them? ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2011 - 10:06am
- Writers' Unions Join Literary Property Rights Suit Against HathiTrust And Five U.S. Universities
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NEW YORK, October 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- The U.K. Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society, the Norwegian Nonfiction Writers and Translators Association, the Swedish Writers Union, The Writers' Union of Canada, University of Oslo professor Helg ...
Article - Newswire - Oct 8 2011 - 10:54am
- Climate Tribunals? A Special Court For Environmentalists
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The U.S. military has its own judicial system. If you commit an infraction, you are charged under the Uniform Court of Military Justice. This keeps the military from becoming a political football. The four other professions also have their own internal mo ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 11 2011 - 11:03am
- Diederik Stapel: Another World Class Psychology Fraud
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Were you buying it when Diederik Stapel of Tilburg University in the Netherlands claimed meat was behind all the aggression we humans have? Vegetarians were, sure, along with plenty of other anti-science hippies when a supposed study matches their world ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 1 2011 - 12:15pm
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