Science & Society

Did 9/11 Make 1,000,000 People Start Smoking Again?

Terrorism-induced smoking is a new explanatory factor that will keep public health academics from accepting that free choice happens- some people will do things that are bad for them.  A Weill Cornell Medical College public health study is stuck in pre-9/ ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2013 - 5:15pm

Even Seattle Yogis Can't Live On Sunshine And Water

What happens if you are a Yogi living in Seattle (or Portland, or San Francisco- wherever progressive pseudoscience crackpots feel welcome and included) who discovers that 'proof' is more complicated than mumbo-jumbo on your mystical website? ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 22 2013 - 10:21am

The Science Of Law

The Science of Law   Scattered throughout the pages of the history of the common law are many references to it being a science.  Science may be called the pursuit of fact by means of well-defined procedures.  Anyone who has ever visited any two courts of ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 24 2013 - 6:59pm

Concerns for an Early Mars Sample Return- background material

This is an article I wrote for wikipedia to cover the diversity of published views on Mars Sample Return. Sadly it was deleted from wikipedia. So I present it here as background material for:  Need For Caution For An Early Mars Sample Return- Opinion Piece ...

Blog Post - Robert Walker - May 2 2019 - 6:08am

Blame "The Big Bang Theory"- Why Fewer Women Go Into Science

When it comes to disparities in gender among various, there are no limits to the hypotheses laid out to explain differences, usually in sync with the cultural agenda of the proponent. Engineering, for example, pays women more equally than any field in Ame ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2013 - 10:48am

Phone Hacking Scandal- Appeal Dismissed

Phone Hacking Scandal- Appeal Dismissed Rebekah Brooks, News International’s former chief executive,  Andy Coulson, former No. 10 spin doctor (Downing Street communications chief), and others have lost an appeal which attempted to redefine what is meant b ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jun 28 2013 - 11:43am

Is Law A Science?

Is Law A Science? In a recent article The Science Of Law I asserted that law, or more properly jurisprudence, is a science.  The basis for that assertion was that both science and law are founded in the Baconian method. In this comment, A Bear In The Wood ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Jul 7 2013 - 6:27pm

Wikipedia Is Less Sexist, Thanks To A Survey Recount

One of the sillier arguments regarding gender inequality (and most of them regarding the developed world are pretty silly in 2013) is that Wikipedia, with anonymous editors of suspect credibility, is somehow sexist because fewer people self-identified as ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 7 2013 - 7:32pm

In Advanced Democracies With Progressive Gender Equality, Women Still Know Less Politics Than Men

A ten-nation analysis of media systems and national political knowledge funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) in the United Kingdom found that women living in the world’s most advanced democracies and under the most progressive gender ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2014 - 2:38pm

Wildlife Conservation Benefits From Nuclear Weapons Testing

There's a new weapon to fight poachers who kill elephants, hippos, rhinos and other wildlife- nuclear bombs.  By measuring radioactive carbon-14 deposited in tusks and teeth by open-air nuclear bomb tests, researchers can pinpoint the year an animal ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2013 - 10:18pm