Science & Society

Slippery Slope Ranger, Or How I Lost A Day In My Life To Mike Adams

Mike Adams ought to have his library card revoked or limited to the children’s section as he obviously has a serious problem with reading comprehension. He takes Hawking’s  The   Grand Design  and manages to butcher it and the ideas in it so badly that any ...

Article - Kim Wombles - May 17 2011 - 7:51am

3M Corporation- Allegations Of Recklessness Over Trials Of BacLite To Detect MRSA 'Superbug' Infection

The Porton Group, the private equity partner of the British Ministry of Defence, has accused 3M Corporation of "negligence and possible recklessness putting lives at risk" due to "botched" 2007 clinical trials of a medical device calle ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2011 - 2:46pm

Five Rules Of Social Media Etiquette

Digital communications is no longer a free-for-all, it can take you right to courts of law if you use it and people don't like what it tells them about you.   A US court just slashed alimony payments (Cardone v. Cardone, 2011 WL 1566992, Conn.Super. ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2011 - 10:15am

Taming The N-headed Science Troll: Using New Media As A Communication Tool Within The Science And Technology Community.

Anyone who have been working in a multidisciplinary science project knows how hard it is to establish coherent dialogs that make sense and are productive for all participants. Scientists from each discipline tend to form their own 'head' creatin ...

Article - Bente Lilja Bye - May 21 2011 - 8:26am

Satoshi Kanazawa, racist or reporter of actual human behavior? A quick look at OK Cupids data

Satoshi Kanazawa has caused a firestorm by asserting that African women are less attractive than other races women. For this he has been called racist. He actually didn’t say anything new, or for that matter scientifically incorrect. However politically in ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 22 2011 - 10:52pm

Satoshi Kanazawa And The Freefall Of Evolutionary Psychology

Last weekend, Satoshi Kanazawa wrote in Psychology Today that black women are considered less attractive than other women but black men are considered more attractive than other men.   Being a good evolutionary psychologist, he set out to do a 'whatsu ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 20 2011 - 8:04pm

3 Things Sci-Fi Movies Get Right

In the movies, aliens and evil empires want to kill us.  Despite their advanced technology, they end up landing ground troops to do so.  Worse, the forces of evil-- alien or human-- tend to be lousy shots.  How unrealistic is this? 1) Aliens who come to ea ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - May 20 2011 - 5:08pm

Newest Motherhood Fashion- Home Births On The Rise

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists doesn't like births outside expensive hospitals and recently issued a statement disapproving of the practice.   Regardless,  mothers, Caucasian at least, are not listening and a new analysis show ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2011 - 5:30pm

Constitutional Football

Constitutional Football I'm not particularly interested in football- aka soccer.  Nor am I at all interested in what footballers get up to on or off the pitch.  However, I am greatly interested in the scientific study of that most peculiar human syst ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - May 24 2011 - 4:08pm

Shrimp On A Treadmill- The NSF Under Fire

In a report sure to send left-wing science blogging into a tizzy, an analysis by Sen. Tom Coburn, M.D., Republican from Oklahoma (naturally, because Republicans hate science if they object to obscure studies that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars) say ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 5 2012 - 9:11am