Science & Society

Not All Vaccines Are Equal: The Reasons Some Won't Get The HPV One

Girls in minority groups and low-income families, who are claimed to be most at risk for cervical cancer, are less likely to get the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine.  Scholars from the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children's Hospi ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2013 - 12:54pm

Science Win: Assisted Reproduction Has Resulted In 5 Million Babies

Science has come a long way since 1978, when Louise Joy Brown, the world's first successful 'test-tube baby', was born. Despite claims that these children were somehow going to be less natural, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has instead become ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2013 - 2:14pm

World Food Prize Honors Science Pioneers- Environmentalists Outraged

Food, medicine and energy are three of the most crucial problems we face today- and they are all protested by a common demographic. Science tends to think on the supply side- how to feed more people, how to get energy to everyone, how to save lives- while ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 22 2013 - 1:55pm

Are You More Scientifically Literate Than A Tea Party Republican?

Any time you get a majority of people together, there will always be some sensitivity and compassion and outreach for the minority. In science academia, it is obvious; small blips in representation get concern about fixing the problem of how to get more of ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 22 2013 - 1:04pm

Co-Founder Of Greenpeace: Greenpeace Is Wrong About Golden Rice

Greenpeace was founded on a pretense of humanitarian action- between 1969 and 1971, they gathered together because they wanted to put an end to hydrogen bomb testing. Later they lost their way and it became about whales and, in the US, being a political ac ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 11 2014 - 7:26pm

Paul Knoepfler To Receive National Advocacy Award At World Stem Cell Summit

Science 2.0 contributor Professor Paul S. Knoepfler of the University of California Davis School of Medicine is being honored at the World Stem Cell Summit with the Stem Cell Action 'National Advocacy Award' from the Genetics Policy Institute. T ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 23 2013 - 12:14pm

Gender Is Not Biological, Find Sociologists

Think gender is determined by patriarchal biological concepts like a chromosome? You'll never make it in sociology thinking that way. Instead, the social sciences are slowly overturning concepts like genital and chromosomes and other science, and it ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 28 2013 - 10:55pm

PETA: EPA Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program Uses Too Many Animals In Animal Testing

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) say the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program is inconsistent when it comes to animal testing. ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2013 - 2:20pm

Romance Online: It Is A Post-Racial World, Especially Among Whites

While politics is not yet post-racial- every criticism of the politics of a minority member of government is labeled racism- dating seems to be, according to UC San Diego sociologist Kevin Lewis after looking at patterns of 126,134 US users of the dating ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2013 - 4:58pm

Exercise During Pregnancy- It's Good For Baby Brains

Even 20 minutes of moderate exercise a few times per week during pregnancy enhances the newborn child's brain development, according to a new paper. In the past, obstetricians would tell women to take it easy and rest during their pregnancy. Now it i ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 11 2013 - 10:36am