Science & Society

Mental Illness And Crime: What The Legacy Of Dorothea Dix Hath Wrought

In the 1830s, jails were an all-purpose solution for a lot of issues. Inmates lived in squalor and people truly did not want to be there so there was a lot less crime. The downside was that nobody really cared about the people who did not belong there, lik ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 12 2018 - 7:12pm

In Europe, E-cigarettes Are Mostly Used By Smokers Or People Trying To Quit

An analysis of e-cigarette uptake across 27 European countries published in Tobacco Control finds that they are mostly used by current smokers or would-be quitters- approximately 29 million people. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2014 - 7:54pm

Why The US Leads The World In Science- Most Science Is Corporate

Organisation for Economic Co‑operation and Developoment (OECD) countries that lead in innovation are easy to spot- you look for the ones that have the most scientists in the private sector.  Countries like the United States, Korea and Japan are responsibl ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2014 - 2:18pm

Sexting: It's Common, But Even Between Minors It's Legally Child Porn

20 year ago, some teens were always trying to get sex- and they talked about it. But their behavior was not stored in an NSA database somewhere. If it were stored with the IRS, such discussions might be safe because they could be lost with a Nixon-ian pho ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2014 - 2:00pm

We Have Seen The STEM Diversity Problem, And The Problem Is Us

Though everyone recognizes there is a problem, during a generation when lots of efforts were made to increase diversity, the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) pipeline in academia remains primarily liberal white men. That's not to say ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2015 - 1:21pm

Parents Of Kids With Autism Go On To Have Fewer Kids

Parents of children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis go on to have fewer kids after the first signs of the disorder manifest or a diagnosis is made, according to an article in JAMA. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2014 - 9:01am

Egg Labels Are Scrambled Logic

A new survey shows egg carton labels are confusing organic consumers. They don't really know the difference between "pasture-raised" eggs and the “free-range” and “cage-free” kind but a pasture-raised company is banking on the fact that if p ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 13 2019 - 12:33pm

Feeding The World Of 2050

If the world will have 9 billion people or more by 2050, we'll probably be okay. The scare stories of food riots and mass famine once promoted by 1960s Doomsday Prophet Paul Ehrlich are today only promoted by, well, Paul Ehrlich. Even organic farmers ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 22 2014 - 6:30pm

Higher Alcohol Taxes Just Lead To Fewer Price Increases For Cheapest Alcohol

Policy makers may think more sin taxes will cut consumption- but it doesn't really work that way. Supermarkets recognize there are a lot more poor people than rich people and so they don't mark up the same products accordingly. A paper written b ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2014 - 7:30pm

Food Fad News: Low Sugar Is The New Low Fat

Just a few short years ago, sugar growers and packagers had to have felt pretty good. Thanks to a rash of suspect epidemiological claims about high-fructose corn syrup, and then marketing claims and labels touting a lack of HFCS (even pancake syrup, made ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2014 - 1:30pm