Science & Society

#GAMERGATE Style Harassment Does Not Happen in the Male Dominated Sciences

The Sciences occur in actual colleges with codes of discipline, more importantly a "college" of people known in each field keeps the peace and diffuses most situations  remotely similar to   #Gamergate.   ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 14 2015 - 10:53pm

Science Left Behind: The Anti-Vaccine Update Update

Last week I did an update on the anti-vaccine situation in America compared to 2012, when my book, Science Left Behind, was published. I noted that things have gotten better, primarily because people on the left have turned on those people on the left who ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 20 2014 - 5:53pm

Egg Donors: Do Parents Prefer Beauty, Brains Or Health?

Sperm donation for fertility issues has been common for some time and ovum donation has become increasingly accepted by women as well. That leads to sociological questions about selection; everyone says they will love their kids no matter what, but given a ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2014 - 9:46am

Egg-Freezing: A Perk Too Far From Facebook And Apple?

Too much to ask. wavebreakmedia / shutterstock By James Hayton, University of Warwick ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 21 2014 - 4:30pm

What Americans Fear Most Isn't Ebola Or Terrorism, It's...

What makes Americans afraid is the topic of the first comprehensive nationwide study by Chapman University. According to the Chapman poll, the number one fear in America today is not Muslim terrorists or Russian imperialism or Ebola, it's...walking a ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 21 2014 - 3:29pm

In Defense Of NIMBY-ism

It's easy to sneer at people for protecting their backyards, but what if there's a compelling reason to do so? Mickey DeRham photos, CC BY-NC By Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. The term NIMBY – “not in m ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 22 2014 - 12:11am

Competition, Not Mandates And Subsidies, Keep Health-Care Costs Low- Study

America has a health care problem. It is excellent, the best in the world, but it is expensive. Rather than solving the problems of defensive medicine costs, designed to prevent lawsuits by conducting unnecessary tests, or tort reform to prevent lawyers f ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2014 - 6:30am

Homeopathy For Dogs

Can homeopathy actually work if someone knows it is a placebo? What if, for example, a skeptical Science 2.0 group was told they got a placebo and that nutritionists were getting medicine? Would we feel better anyway? (1) Of course it's possible, it j ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 13 2014 - 5:07pm

As The Weather Changes, So Do Beliefs About Climate Change

By: Karin Heineman, Inside Science (Inside Science TV) – Who can forget the winter of 2013-2014? Record-breaking cold temperatures and heavy snowfall hit from the Rocky Mountains all the way to the East Coast. Although the majority of Americans still beli ...

Article - Inside Science - Oct 22 2014 - 7:00am

This Is Not The Immigration Crisis You're Looking For

When is an immigration crisis not an immigration crisis? When people who do not live where it is happening change the definition of an immigration crisis. A new paper from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy examines historical immigr ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 22 2014 - 2:04pm