Science & Society

Paying To Be Seen Quicker- The Future Of The UK Healthcare System

While America debates moving to a health care system more like the UK, the majority of Brits want to try an American approach. According to Simplyhealth's latest survey, 59% of people would consider paying to be seen privately due to concerns about a ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2011 - 12:04pm

Health Care Reform: In Massachusetts, The Working Poor Still Are Not Covered

Massachusetts implemented health care reform to increase employer-based insurance and to provide no-cost or low-cost insurance to those unable to afford it but it hasn't worked- the uninsured in Massachusetts remain predominantly the working poor, ac ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2011 - 11:15am

$65 Billion Net To Farmers: Thanks, Biotech

$65 billion is is the increase in net farm income, the farm level benefit after paying for the seed and its biotech traits, that the biotech industry has provided across the globe during the period 1996 to 2009, according to an analysis published in the I ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 19 2011 - 5:52pm

The Fringes Disagree But Science And Religion Do Mix

To religious fundamentalists, atheists in science are engaged in an insidious campaign to undercut morality and replace it with God-less relativism and moral equivalence.  To militant atheists, religious people are intellectually immature, anti-science bus ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 21 2011 - 11:38am

Anti-Science Republicans Versus Anti-Science Democrats: The Comparison

Writing in USA Today, microbiologist Dr. Alex Berezow makes a statement sure to leave the militant left wing who believe all Republicans are mentally Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann sputtering.  Namely, that anti-science Republicans get media coverage but n ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 23 2012 - 11:42pm

Too Much Cost, Too Much Care: An Argument For And Against US Health Reform

If health care is free, more people will go to the doctor and that means longer waiting for people who truly need it. An overburdened health care system would then have to hire less-qualified people to meet the needs, and that is bad.  If the president sud ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 26 2011 - 5:30pm

Rainbow connection

On the way to work this morning, I noticed people pointing out the train window and smiling. From middle-aged suits to angst-ridden hipsters, faces changed from jaded to serene- there was a rainbow just west of downtown. One of the wool-hatted, checked-fla ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Sep 27 2011 - 2:57pm

Has Al Gore faked a global warming experiment?

My attention has been drawn to this, by Anthony Watts: Video analysis and scene replication suggests that Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project fabricated their Climate 101 video “Simple Experiment” I would like to scrutinize it myself, but Nad oes ynof nerth ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Sep 28 2011 - 1:17pm

Ten Rules To Get Help From Online Scientific Communities

With scientific research becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, many researchers find themselves dealing with issues they are not prepared for. A good example of this is how biologists in several fields come to rely on computer programs, and are occasio ...

Article - Gunnar De Winter - Sep 30 2011 - 9:55am

The Left Is More Anti-Science Than The Right Unless The Right Is More Anti-Science Than The Left

Question: Quick, what is the fastest way to make the term "false equivalence" appear? Answer: Contend that whatever side of the political spectrum the person you are talking to is on is more anti-science than the other side.  Or even equal. The L ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 24 2012 - 12:13am