Science & Society
- Scottish Suicide: The Looming Crisis
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Recent research examined suicide rates north and south of the border between 1960 and 2008 and revealed the widening gap in suicide rates between Scotland and England and Wales is largely due to the number of young Scottish men taking their lives. The suic ...
Article - News Staff - Feb 9 2012 - 5:00am
- Why Are We Still Talking About Darwin?
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If someone in 2012 wants to criticize Henry Ford because he didn't know everything about automobiles a century ago, it's a little silly. He knew what he knew given the science and the technology of his day- he revolutionized his field. Freud got ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 12 2015 - 12:37pm
- Alien Life- Will We Know It?
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Will we recognise alien life if we find it? The answer to that is: if it’s a very basic life form we will only know it as living if it’s based on carbon and water. The reason for saying that is that you only have to look at the articles and comments ...
Article - Steve Davis - Feb 13 2012 - 1:48am
- Engineered Pandemics? A Memo To Bird Flu Virologists
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A note to bird flu virologists: Not all of you have been approaching of this whole engineered flu pandemic controversy quite optimally. It’s understandable that you weren’t prepared for all the attention. After all, you were only answering calls from bot ...
Article - Robert Cooper - Feb 14 2012 - 12:10pm
- Science Academia Is Not Sexist,Though Maybe Motherhood Is
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Despite claims by some of the more aggressive groups who attack science academia, women do not face a 'hostile' work environment because in some fields they are less than 50 percent or some other scientists are rude. Instead, they face a tough pe ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 16 2012 - 5:36am
- The Heartland Institute And Murdoch Media
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The Heartland Institute and Murdoch Media The Heartland Institute story broke on February 14th. The revelation that anti-science bunkum has been funded by corporate dollars was no surprise to those of us who have been investigating these propaganda mills ...
Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 22 2012 - 11:30am
- GMO Foods And The Precautionary Principle
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There have been several articles talking about opposition to GMO foods as being "anti-science" and raising the issue of the precautionary principle, but in fairness, we have to consider what the role of the precautionary principle is, before we j ...
Article - Gerhard Adam - Feb 23 2012 - 11:39pm
- This Is Going To Be A Problem
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Back in August, an iPhone game called simply "Squids" charmed me with its adorable, somewhat-anatomically-plausible rendition of my favorite animal. Luckily for my productivity, however, I don't have an iPhone--I have a Nexus One. ...
Article - Danna Staaf - Feb 29 2012 - 5:23pm
- My Workplaces: Mad Scientist Lab versus Chinese Red Banners
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It may be of interest for those outside of science and academia to get a closer look at what diverse scientists’ work environments are like. Some may be surprised about the drab conditions. Only few places look like the mad scientists’ secret laboratory ...
Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - May 5 2013 - 12:57am
- Requiem for Humanity — Disease
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DISEASE In an October 17, 2005 New York Times Op-Ed article titled Recipe for Destruction, Ray Kurzweil and Bill Joy collaborated on the following article: AFTER a decade of painstaking research, federal and university scientists have reconstructed the 19 ...
Blog Post - Alan Hoshor - Mar 10 2012 - 2:39pm
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