Science & Society

Organic Farmers Protest "Responsibly Grown" Food Labels In Whole Foods

Organic farming has had a pretty good run. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 12 2015 - 10:57am

Ebola News Coverage Linked To Public Panic

Using Twitter and Google search trend data in the wake of the very limited U.S. Ebola outbreak of October 2014, a team of researchers from Arizona State University, Purdue University and Oregon State University have found that news media is extraordinaril ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2015 - 6:58am

Environmental Activism Is Successful, Science Not So Much

The environmental movement has been successful, according to humanities scholars at Michigan State University. Certainly that is where the money is. Though environmental groups and pro-science groups are industry and politically funded, only the pro-scien ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2015 - 10:30am

Journalists Must Get Better At Science

Media are important. Especially the media we trust. One might express the effect of a piece of journalism (J) about, say, a particular drug or food, as a factor of media authority (A), multiplied by the size of audience (D), divided by the availability of ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 17 2015 - 10:00am

Real Climate Policy Progress Is Happening

The recent commitments by the leaders of G7 nations to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide to 40-70% below current levels by 2050, and to eliminate the use of fossil fuels altogether by 2100, have raised several questions. Are these objectives feasible? Ar ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 17 2015 - 12:00pm

Alcohol Is Good For You? The Public Is Not Convinced

Decades ago, the American Council on Science and Health said that saturated fats were not as bad as was being portrayed and replacements would be worse. Natural Resources Defense Council and other scare-story-of-the-month groups had sided with yet another ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2015 - 11:21am

Do 'Science Popularizers' Care Too Much About Religion?

Richard Dawkins and Francis Collins have dramatically different roles when it comes to science. One is a science popularizer and extremely anti-religious while one runs the $30 billion National Institute of Health and is a religious believer, but also writ ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2015 - 7:01pm

Anti-Corporate Framing By Activists Is Limiting Child Health Improvements In Other Countries

Partnerships with multinational companies like Coca-Cola in child health programs can work to help save lives but decades of well-funded public relations campaigns against corporations by NGOs has turned letting companies fund programs into an ethical min ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2015 - 8:30am

Surgical Tourism Has Downsides- Even When It's In The US

Some of the nation's largest businesses encourage employees to travel to large U.S. medical centers for complex elective surgical procedures. As part of these medical travel programs, companies negotiate lower prices for patients to receive high-qual ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2015 - 8:00am

Female Managers Sometimes Increase The Gender Wage Gap

Working women are "leaning in" and supporting more females in leadership roles, but a new study finds that having a female manager doesn't necessarily equate to higher salaries for female employees. Instead, women can sometimes take an earn ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2015 - 10:31am