Science & Society

In Canada, Public Health Academics Worry About The Rise Of E-Cigarettes

Young people are just as likely to try electronic cigarettes- vaping- as cigarette smoking, according to a new report in Tobacco Use in Canada: Patterns and Trends. ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2015 - 8:55am

Chipotle’s GMO Gimmick Turned Them Into The Public Face Of Science Illiteracy

Chipotle wins the science ‘foot in mouth’ award for 2015, and we are not even to summer yet. So far there are more than 40 media condemnations and counting. The fast food chain’s “bold” move, announcing a faux ban on GMOs in its food, has blown up big tim ...

Article - Jon Entine - May 5 2015 - 6:19pm

How To Break Free From Sexism In Science

Two women recently had their research paper rejected by a science journal based on an incredibly sexist review of their work – an event that has caused outrage on social media. While the journal, PLOS ONE, has apologized and given the authors a second cha ...

Article - The Conversation - May 6 2015 - 10:30am

Science Loses The Debate On Astronomy By Deferring To Hawaiian Humanities Students

"Astronomy is about as pure and as clean as you can get, so what’s the big deal?” That's the question an astronomer asked about why, after 13 astronomy experiments on Mauna Kea, 13,000 feet in the air and a pristine location due to lacking 40% of ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 22 2019 - 6:54pm

Kind Snacks And Why You Should Ignore Marketing On Food Packages

By Sara Rennekamp, Inside Science -- News broke this week that the company behind the popular Kind line of snack bars received a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration. Their offense? Not labeling the bars according to FDA rules-- primarily ...

Article - Inside Science - May 6 2015 - 11:12am

Expanded Hospice Improved Care But Raised Medicare Costs

A large study examined the impact of growth in Medicare's hospice benefit among nursing home residents between 2004 and 2009 and found improvement in indicators of care quality, such as less reliance on intensive care and feeding tubes, but that came ...

Article - News Staff - May 11 2015 - 10:30am

Gender Wage Gap In Academic Medical Education Hasn't Narrowed

The existence of wage gaps between genders in some occupations, from environmentalism to the White House to science academia, continues to be a hot-button topic. Medium- and lower-wage positions get the most attention but a new paper in The American Journa ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2015 - 9:14am

Women's magazines influence decisions to have a more 'natural' childbirth or not, with most stories in favor of epidural or potentially a Cesarean section. Scholars writing in Women&Health decided to assess the effect of communicating ...

Article - News Staff - May 11 2015 - 2:30pm

Millennials Like Sexual Freedom, But Cheating On Your Spouse Is Still A No-No

American Millennials may be even more sexually permissive than the 1970s generation, noted for its bisexuality and drugs and unprotected sex in a consequence-free environment. Teen sex, premarital sex, gay sex, it's all a lot more commonly accepted th ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2015 - 11:01am

Militant Animal Rights Activists Have Won A Battle Against Science

Militant animal rights activists have forced Tübingen neuroscientist Professor Nikos Logothetis’ to announce that he will no longer do primate research. The death threats and hostility he has received are not worth it, he said. But scientists are showing s ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2015 - 11:47am