Science & Society

Obese US Firefighters Don't Get Told To Lose Weight

You never see them in calendars, but there are obese firefighters- and they don't get told to lose weight by their doctors. As we all know, there are many healthy obese people, the notion that BMI is some magic button for diabetic and cardiovascular ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2014 - 10:30am

Sexist Weather And Hermaphroditic Frogs: The Problem Of Faux Peer Review

In today's Wall Street Journal, I have an article discussing recent problems in peer review. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 23 2015 - 10:59am

Welcome Back, LeBron: Why Catching Boomerang Employees Is Smart

Until a week before basketball player LeBron James returned to the NBA team that drafted him as a rookie, the Cleveland Cavaliers, owner Dan Gilbert had a scathing letter on his website criticizing James. Many fans had thrown out his jerseys. Suddenly, af ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2014 - 9:47am

Future: Millennials Benefit From Leisure Browsing During Work

While older people wonder if modern connectivity behavior is leading to a lack of coherent thinking, they tend to forget previous generations worried over that too- because the next to come along couldn't use a slide rule. A new study has found that, ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2014 - 3:00am

If Scientists Were Wall Street Executives, Fraudsters Would Be In Jail

Dr. Zulfiqar Bhutta, Robert Harding Chair in global child health and policy and Co-Director of the Centre for Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto says in BMJ that criminal sanctions are necessary to deter growing research miscon ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2014 - 8:32pm

Women At Work: Self-Identity Impacts Childcare Balance (Though Men's Doesn't)

A new small-scale sociology survey finds that the more a woman self-identifies with her profession, the more paid hours she works and the less time she spends with her children, though childcare balance is more equal between a couple.  Yet the more a woma ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2014 - 10:01am

Poor People Can't Even Afford To Donate Kidneys

Kidney donations have been in decline and a study in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN) says it has discovered why; it's cheaper to get a kidney than to give one.   For their study, Jagbir Gill, MD, MPH of University of British ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2014 - 11:31pm

More People In The UK Complain About Doctors- Media Implicated

When you get something for free, how much complaining can you really do? Apparently quite a bit, in the UK, according to a new report. There has been a large increase in complaints, which may be due to wider social trends rather than localized issues. A l ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2014 - 9:09pm

African-American Homeownership Became More Risky In The 1990s

In the 1990s, it was claimed that minorities were less likely to get home mortgages 30 years after anti-discrimination laws were added to specify housing, so policies were instituted requiring justification when people were denied a home loan. As a result ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2014 - 11:25am

92 Percent Of People Eat What They Put On Their Plates

There is a lot of concern about food waste and it may be due to leftovers that never get used but it probably isn't the bulk of Americans- 92 percent of people eat everything. Obviously that can be bad for people in other ways if people put a lot on ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2014 - 7:00pm