Science & Society
- Academic Workplace Bias Hurts Everyone
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People who have worked in both academia and the corporate world claim that the bias in academia is worse- which sounds odd, given the nature of academia. But statistics bear that out. Undergraduate representation of political views and handicapped people, ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2014 - 9:49am
- What Would Newton Do? He Wouldn't Tweet
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There are recurring calls to make scientists more social. Scientists have already accepted government control of academic research and now fellow academics and some in the bureaucracy want to task them with communications and outreach also. A few even wan ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2014 - 8:51pm
- Schools Don't Stop Bullying And Boys Are Bullies As Much As Girls- Review
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In what they are calling the most thorough analysis to date of studies on school bullying, the psychologists who authored a review on the topic in Annual Review of Psychology say that K-12 schools' efforts to curtail bullying are often disappointing ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2014 - 1:01am
- Criticism Of Violent Video Games Has Decreased As Gamers Have Taken Positions Of Leadership
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20 years ago there was widespread concern about the impact of video game violence. "Mortal Kombat" created a gore filter so parents could turn that off, "Postal" had, unsurprisingly, someone committing mass killings emulating the rash ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 2 2014 - 11:28am
- It's Been A Bad Decade For Union Of Concerned Scientists
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A decade ago, a well-orchestrated political campaign against Republicans in general and George W. Bush in particular turned everything into an anti-science issue. Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), which is run by a former Democratic staffer, was front a ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2014 - 10:26pm
- Cosmos, Fox, and Corporate Risk
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The television docudrama Cosmos: A Space-time Odyssey is in free-fall, having dropped in the ratings for the third straight week after a somewhat tepid debut. TV By the Numbers reports that only 3.91 million people watched the fourth episode of the series ...
Blog Post - Brandon T. Bisceglia - Apr 2 2014 - 8:18pm
- Publicity Spurs Science Study Retractions 7X More Often
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Sometimes errors happen, sometimes fraud happens. Sometimes methodology is suspect. ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 3 2014 - 9:47am
- IPCC Optimism May be Smart Marketing
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When the second working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its fifth report March 31, its unexpected emphasis on the positive may have been more than a reflection of better efforts to deal with the impacts of a warming planet. ...
Blog Post - Brandon T. Bisceglia - Apr 10 2014 - 11:47am
- Sweden Has 3X As Many Young People With Type 1 Diabetes As Previously Thought
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Sweden, the country with the second highest prevalence of type 1 diabetes in the world, could actually have 2-3 times more adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes than previously estimated, according to new findings in Diabetologia. Current esti ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2014 - 1:30am
- On The Eve Of The ACA, Primary Care Doctors Are Available- If You Have The Right Insurance
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Previous expansions in Medicaid eligibility by states were not associated with an erosion of perceived access to care or an increase in emergency department use- so why are so many now complaining that no doctors will take Medicaid? The problem is compoun ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2014 - 6:05pm
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