Science & Society

Food Activists Declare Synthetic Biology In League With Lucifer

If you want to find a hotbed of anti-science sentiment, sure, you could go to a cigar bar full of Republicans and mention that the temperature outside must be up because of global warming- and you would get lots of predictable responses, but you would not ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 7 2014 - 8:47am

Friends Of The Earth Wants To Learn Science

Friends of the Earth, most famous for being against nuclear energy and every other bit of modern science and technology, now thinks most scientists are unethical- unless they are hand-picked by Friends Of The Earth. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 22 2014 - 12:41pm

Gangs: Offender Today, Victim Tomorrow

Gang culture gets you one way or the other according to a new paper. Gang members are twice as likely to become both a victim and an offender of a crime than non-gang members. Why? Single acts of violence often lead to retribution between gangs as a whole ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2014 - 10:01am

Not Just The US: Why Most Countries Like Partisan Media

Media has always been partisan but when it was only partisan one way, that was the norm. It was considered objective and impartial. In the US, there were social conservative Democrats who believed in national defense and liberal Republicans who supported ...

Article - News Staff - May 8 2014 - 1:30am

New York City Smog Linked To Future Earnings In Kids

Would reducing smog lead to higher earnings? Yes, say Columbia University professor of Environmental Health Science Frederica Perera and colleagues. They correlate reduced air pollution to higher IQ. When two curves need to match to create causation and ...

Article - News Staff - May 8 2014 - 8:41am

Spice: The Preferred Illicit Drug Of Army Users

States can pass all of the laws they want but a US Army soldier, active duty or otherwise, is going to be in serious trouble if there is evidence they have used marijuana. It does not matter if you claim to have pain or get a note from your doctor, the Ar ...

Article - News Staff - May 11 2014 - 9:32am

Hurricane Katrina Blamed For Increases In Stillbirths

Can hurricanes cause stillbirths to rise sharply or is it epidemiologists torturing data until it confesses again? A paper in the Journal of Epidemiology&Community Health says that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are responsible for up to half of all rec ...

Article - News Staff - May 9 2014 - 8:47am

European Obesity Prevalence By 2030- Ireland Will Be Worst, Romania Will Be Healthiest

A statistical modeling paper has projected rates of obesity and overweight status in both male and female Europeans for 2030 and found that, when it comes to being fat, not all 53 Euro-region countries are equal. The statistical model incorporated all ava ...

Article - News Staff - May 10 2014 - 11:30am

Open Science Needs To Be More Than A Buzzword Term