Science & Society

Scientific Truth-Seeking: An Evolving Process

Standards of Transparency in Science?  ...

Article - David Brin - Aug 29 2012 - 4:18pm

Chemistry Culture Disconnect: Elites Support Obama But The Masses Support Romney

Since the early 1970s, all aspects of academia have skewed left.  With that political shift, the confidence that scientists are neutral arbiters for the public good has also declined on both sides. More Republicans than Democrats think the fix is in regard ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 5 2012 - 12:54pm

Economics: Eliminating Social Security Taxes For Older People Would Create A Stronger Tax Base?

Social security is in a crisis even worse than Medicare. Because Congress has consistently spent contributions, social security is always on the edge of insolvency and now that the Baby Boomers have begun retiring, the crisis is going to get worse, with no ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2012 - 5:04pm

The Obama Stimulus Plan- Did It Help Life Sciences?

Coming into the Democratic convention, science academia is going to be enthusiastic in its support of President Obama.  Unlike counterparts in private-sector science, academia will vote up to 85% Democratic and some of that reason has been that Democrats a ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 3 2012 - 2:45pm

Buying Organic- It's Complicated...

A  45-year meta-analysis of 240 science studies found that 'organic' processed food is the same in pesticides, the same in nutrition and a whole lot more expensive. "...there isn’t much difference between organic and conventional foods, if y ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 3 2012 - 5:43pm

UN Agrees To Do Nothing On Climate Change, Arranges More Meetings

Being on a UN committee to discuss climate change must be a lot of fun; you get to fly to exotic locations and no one ever expects you to get anything done.  I guess that applies to the UN overall. Bangkok held the latest meeting that accomplished nothing ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 6 2012 - 2:18am

Thomas H. Ray: care about Vongehr's idea of science

Instead of getting any public support, increasingly the mob starts to get out their pitchforks. Now I came across this gem over at the FQXi site – it is down on the comment thread, but it is written by the author of the article there, a technical writer a ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 9 2012 - 6:14am

Vegetarianism: The Future Of Food For Poor People

What would the world look like with 7 billion people and no way to scientifically have created better ways of producing food?   A lot of poor vegetarians, that's what.  And only rich people eating meat. Organic food corporations love to claim that th ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 12 2012 - 6:41pm

Do You Really Need To Buy Organic To Avoid Pesticide Residues?

Last week, a meta-analysis from a highly credible academic source (Stanford University, its medical school and nearby institutions), raised serious questions about the often-touted nutritional advantage of organic food.  They digested the contents of 237 p ...

Article - Steve Savage - Sep 10 2012 - 11:02am

The Impending Doom Of Science Funding Sequestration

The Society for Neuroscience recently hosted a webinar for all of its members on the topic of the budget sequestration event that will happen next year without some kind of positive action by Congress. The presentation was a call to action backed by a sens ...

Article - David Sloan - Sep 14 2012 - 2:52pm