Science & Society

US, Estonia, Germany Tops In Online Freedom, Says Global Study

An Internet freedom advocacy group has rated 14 countries as "free" in a new report, with Estonia, USA and Germany leading in online freedom for citizens, while countries such as Cuba, China and Iran have the least freedom.   The global survey & ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2012 - 11:30am

Male, Female Corporate Directors Align On Strategy And Quotas, But Not Diversity

In one of the most comprehensive global surveys of corporate board directors to date, men and women directors were found to be in striking alignment on economic outlook, political and regulatory concerns, and the business challenges facing their companies ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2012 - 12:30pm

Anti-Science Food Activists Go After President Obama

The anti-GMO contingent may be anti-science, and they may be overwhelmingly progressive, but what they are not- and it is refreshing- is hypocritical when it comes to criticizing their own side of the aisle. Outside America, anyway. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 27 2012 - 5:24pm

Ban Cars: Air Improves In Los Angeles When Autos Are Gone

In 2008, China needed to improve the air around Beijing before the Olympics, so they did something that was considered Draconian- they banned cars for everyone except the rich and the government. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2012 - 3:30am

Crowd-Sourcing Citizen Science, Ideas And Innovation

Citizen engagement is essential to our fast-changing civilization. Politics could certainly use more  empowerment of common citizens. So could innovative commerce, and even national defense  relies on a robust citizenry. But one area with especially brigh ...

Article - David Brin - Oct 1 2012 - 5:28pm

GM, Conventional, And Organic Food Safety

It seems that as this discussion continues, more and more concepts become conflated producing all manner of irrelevant comparisons that create more and more confusion. In the first place, we have the problem of defining what we even mean by food safety.  T ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Jun 24 2013 - 5:31pm

The Problems Of Biotechnology- GM Foods

In my previous article, the fundamental equivalence of foods was discussed recognizing that there is a difference in assessing problems with the food, versus problems with food handling.  Moreover, much of the focus has been on the safety of these foods re ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Oct 15 2013 - 9:52am

Prop. 37 Is About Language, Not Concept

People who are either clueless or shills for anti-science hysteria insist 'something is better than nothing' when it comes to laws about food, and that we can just 'fix' it despite its flaws but we should go ahead and pass it if we care ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 2 2012 - 11:30am

What Is The Cost Of Clean Air?

Does clean air have a cost where it makes sense versus where it doesn't? What about human life in general?   Economists still try to create a metric and a group from the University of Chicago and MIT tackled the financial results of extensive environm ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2012 - 1:11pm

US Health Care: You Don't Need What You Have

The Affordable Care Act controversy rages on. In this week's BMJ,  journalist Jeanne Lenzer says the basic assumption that US people don't have enough health care is misleading and in reality, Americans have too much- and that u nnecessary care c ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2012 - 7:59pm