Science & Society

Do Democrats Really Care About Science?

Sometimes you put things in the platform of a political party because it's a lot of drama to exclude them even if you don't really believe.  So we get hilarity like last week, with Republican candidate Mitt Romney disavowing some of his own platf ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 7 2012 - 12:34pm

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

The New Modernism: Blending Science, Engineering, Art And Human Imagination

INTRO:  On September 14, 2012, I served as the guest speaker at the grand opening and dedication of the new  Structural/ Materials Engineering Building at UC San Diego (UCSD).  Present also and offering remarks were Frieder Seible, Dean of the Jacobs Scho ...

Article - David Brin - Sep 17 2012 - 11:28am

The Paradox Of Millennials

They are not buying into global warming except they care about the environment more than anyone ever did before. They will eat healthier than previous generations, provided the products are in pouches and not cans and can be purchased in vending machines a ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 28 2012 - 6:04pm

Europeans, Have More Kids: Children Without Siblings Tend To Be Overweight

Like the rest of the developed world, Europe is getting a lot fatter, and public health experts in Europe have found a correlation for the upward spike in youth obesity- the low birth rate. They say only children, singletons, have a more than 50 percent hi ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2012 - 1:00pm

Mother Nature Is Ruining The Earth

Anti-science people with a 'natural' fetish don't understand that the random and unpredictable nature of...nature...is a bad thing.  All of the funding campaigns and Internet rants of environmentalists are only possible because scientists an ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 18 2012 - 2:55am

Prop 37 Lawyer Claims He Never Thought Much About His Wording

Here is a head scratcher; when confronted about the vague, conflicting language in Proposition 37- even the real name,  the California Right to Know Genetically Modified Food Act, is weird and disjointed- Attorney  James Wheaton, who made his fortune in nu ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 27 2012 - 7:43am