Science & Society

BP's Extreme Climate Forecast: Storm-proofing For Shareholders Or Corporate Handcuffs?

BP’s annual Energy Outlook report, released in February, details the results from modelling of what it sees as the “most likely” energy scenario out to 2035. In this scenario global fossil use increases by 33%, consistent with a scenario the International ...

Article - The Conversation - Mar 31 2015 - 11:09pm

Holistic Medicine Gurus Can Find Diseases In Your Coffee Pot

A holistic medicine guru had a sucker customer patient with a pesky issue that couldn't be solved with the usual alternative and complementary medicine routine- eliminating gluten or adding whatever Miracle Vegetable is in the New York Times this week ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 7 2015 - 4:26pm

What The Environmental Movement Should Learn From Religion: That They're A Religion

This past weekend, 2 billion Christians celebrated Easter, when Jesus was a martyr for the sins of man. The weekend before that, environmentalists celebrated ignorance, poverty, and backwardness under the name Earth Hour, and they wondered why more people ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 8 2018 - 11:58am

Female-Dominated Teams Help Women Get Ahead In Science

Though girls at a young age enjoy Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), by the time they graduate from college their interests have changed. Women still prefer the life sciences and dominate the social sciences, but in other areas like physics ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2015 - 2:53pm

Why Do Breastfeeding Moms Want More Sex?

A new study notes that many breastfeeding mothers in the Philippines want more sex right after giving birth than they did before they became pregnant. The Philippines culture has a low divorce rate so is it a relationship survival strategy? Or an increased ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2015 - 4:40pm

The Hubris Of Monsanto

Candor from Monsanto C-level people is downright refreshing- and it's new.  In seeking to perhaps take over Syngenta, they recognize they may want to do things differently than they did when they rolled out GMOs. GMOs were already the future 20 years ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 23 2019 - 10:48am

Suicides Under-Reported In Western Countries- And That Has Consequences

Japan is famous for committing suicide- as many people kill themselves using rope as Americans, with a much larger population, do with guns- but they may have more accurate numbers than western countries, according to a new paper.  In western countries, s ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2015 - 3:21pm

How Do We Solve Science's Credibility Problem?

Science is considered a source of truth and the importance of its role in shaping modern society cannot be overstated. But in recent years science has entered a crisis of trust. The results of many scientific experiments appear to be surprisingly hard to ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 8 2015 - 7:30am

Is Science Better Than Journalism At Self-Correction?

Rolling Stone’s retraction of an incendiary article about an alleged gang rape on the campus of the University of Virginia certainly deserves a place in the pantheon of legendary journalism screw-ups. It is highly unusual – although not unprecedented – fo ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 10 2015 - 8:00am

Why Protest Clean Multi-Cultural White-Collar Astronomy Jobs?

Having once lived in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, on occasion I would drive to those old gigantic relics of steel mills. They were behemoths and so were the buildings that housed them. They looked like they could block out the sun. In John Ford's ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 14 2015 - 10:18pm