Science & Society

L'Oréal-UNESCO Announces Women In Science Laureates

The L'Oréal Foundation and UNESCO has announced the five women scientists who will be honored as the 15th L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Laureates. On March 28th, 2013, the five Laureates will be honored at an Awards ceremony in Paris and w ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2012 - 10:57am

Jonah Lehrer, Proust, And The Tyranny Of Salami

In the scientific community, researchers call it salami slicing. Appropriately, the act consists of shaving down a collected dataset until a scientist reaches the smallest scrap of result that still constitutes an original idea. This decontextualized whis ...

Article - Clayton Aldern - Oct 21 2012 - 12:23am

How Much Initiative Should People Who Care About The Climate Take?

An iron dumping experiment was recently conducted by an environmentally concerned group who believe controlled geo-engineering may be the solution to impending science issues. It was conducted without involvement from the scientific community and without p ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 22 2012 - 1:19am

Face-ism: Paper Says Mainstream Media Is Sexist- And Less Discriminatory Cultures Are Moreso

Psychology of Women Quarterly, the scientific, peer-reviewed journal of feminism, contends that there are gender stereotypes in the media- photographs of men focus on male faces while photographs of women are focused on female bodies. Such "face-ism& ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2012 - 5:00am

Manslaughter Sentence For Scientists Who Misinformed Public On Deadly Aquila Quake

A court in L'Aquila, Italy, handed six-year-prison sentences to members of a national "Great Risks Commission". Residents noticed increased seismic activity. They were used to tremors, because L’Aquila sits on a major fault line, and they c ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Jul 7 2014 - 1:28am

700 Researchers Call On Gilles-Eric Seralini To Release GMO Test Data

700 scientists and academicians have signed petitions calling on French researcher Gilles-Eric Seralini to release research data he claims is evidence for  health problems associated with biotech crops. The petitioners are from every continent and represen ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 18 2013 - 12:01pm

Scientization Of Politics: Why Political Scientists Suddenly Love Biology

The scientization of politics is taking a cultural or political world view and rationalizing it using science. Since it is election time in America, it has been open season on Republicans, with social scientists, who are around 99% Democrats, looking for w ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 4 2013 - 6:41pm

Magic Rocks Update: Abound Solar Gets Investigated

A little over a year ago I wrote about the continued disturbing trend in government subsidies of 'magic rocks' while claiming they were science- in that instance, commercial solar companies that were being propped up by American taxpayers, with l ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 27 2012 - 11:13am

USDA Organic Crops: New Data Shows No Net Growth 2008-11

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Article - Steve Savage - Oct 29 2012 - 9:41am

Can You Be Pro-Science And Pro-Environment In 2012?

If you think global warming deniers are anti-science about the environment, take a look at environmentalists.  While the former are only anti-science about one thing, environmentalists are increasingly on the wrong side of lots of science issues. Journalis ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 30 2012 - 3:27pm