Science & Society
- Anti-Science Food Activists Go After President Obama
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
- What Electrical Appliance Will Still Be In Your Home 25 Years From Now?
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For some appliances, newer is not always better. If you have an old dryer, you are better off not replacing it with an EnergyStar, more efficient model. Unless you want to wait forever to dry your clothes, whereas newer refrigerators work better but peo ...
Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2012 - 11:00am
- Scientific Misconduct, Not Error, Accounts For The Majority Of Article Retractions
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Scientists are commonly portrayed as paragons of rationality, subsisting solely on fact-based evidence and hard data; what goes on behind laboratory doors is in large part a mystery to the general public. In the past several years, however, there have been ...
Article - Eve Hardy - Oct 5 2012 - 7:20pm
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