Science & Society

Appeals Court Lifts Restrictions On Federal Embryonic Stem Cell Funding

The U.S. Federal Court of Appeals has overturned an August 2010 limitation on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research.  Since 2001, federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research had been limited to existing lines.  Private and state f ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2011 - 1:11am

So You Want To Write A Book?

A few Science 2.0 readers may recall that I tried out some ideas for a book here in 2009, and the immediate feedback was encouraging and helpful. The book is called First Life and is about to be published by UCPress. (One of my colleagues mentioned that ad ...

Article - Dave Deamer - Apr 30 2011 - 2:37pm

Do-It-Yourself Biology And The History Of Risk In Science

John Hunter had a gift for dissection. As a child he was an unexceptional student. At age 20, he journeyed to London in the midst of Britain's rise as a scientific power to assist at his brother's anatomy school. There he displayed a gift for fin ...

Article - Marcus Wohlsen - May 2 2011 - 5:55pm

Osama Bin Laden finally Martyred by US, China Still Unstoppable

All media, bloggers and so on, do take note! Do not disregard the following, only in rather rational societies completely inconsequential bit of news: After being sought for a decade, one religious old bigot that was involved somehow somewhere in the hist ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 6 2014 - 4:18am

Top Ten Health Trends: "Proven" And "Soft" Claims Continue To Dominate EU

DUIVEN, Netherlands, May 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- The fourth batch of generic EU health claim opinions delivered by the European Food Safety Authority [EFSA] in April saw the previous trend of negative opinions continue: 20% successful, 80% unsuccessful. Co ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - May 3 2011 - 12:42pm

GM not the devil

In yesterday’s article on Science 2.0, Oh, Health Ranger...You Make Me Ill, said person was taken to task for saying: "The use of GMOs is the closest thing to 'Satanic' that you'll find in modern agriculture. The agenda behind this is p ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Feb 23 2012 - 11:42pm

What If's, Defining And Redefining Disability: The Magic Pill Question

It's a natural proclivity to play the what-if game. What if we could go back and change things? What if we could alter some particular trait about ourselves or an event? Would we do it? It's a favorite plot device in fiction. In the disability co ...

Article - Kim Wombles - May 9 2011 - 10:49am

Where did the Stimulus go?

Economists and Obama often wonder why the Stimulus didn't work.  Libertarians and the GOP think they know the answer, though they suffer from intellectual Fundamentalism of the same sort all zealots display, the need for absolute certainty-- a need w ...

Blog Post - Ed Chen - May 9 2011 - 10:01am

Semengate- Is Modern Science Sexist Or Hyper Politically Correct?

What if a study were produced that said there was something fundamental about how women react to men and it was discussed by the head of a medical body and its official publication?   If you are the head of that medical body and the official publication an ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 10 2011 - 10:19am

Nature Magazine's Assault On Investigative Science Journalism

It may surprise you to learn this but Nature (the magazine, not the bitch) is not a fan of yours.  Or ours.  Or anyone not part of their multi-billion dollar publishing conglomerate. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 10 2011 - 2:06pm