Science & Society

Male Doctors Are More Likely To Be Sued

Male doctors have nearly a 250 percent greater chance of having medico-legal action taken against them than their female counterparts. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2015 - 2:01pm

Baby Budgeting: Egg Freezing Revolutionizes Family Planning

Female fertility begins to decline at an accelerated rate after the age of 35—however, more and more women are delaying having children for several reasons, including pursuing careers, having not found the right partner, and simply not being ready to have ...

Article - American Council ... - Aug 15 2015 - 8:00am

Nutritionist Attacked After Debunking ‘Glyphosate In Milk’ Study- Here's How She Responded

As reporter Keith Kloor noted in his recent  Nature   story on the targeting of biotech professors and science advocates,U.S. Right to Know has issued yet a new Freedom of Information Act demand to Washington State University for the email records of Assoc ...

Article - Genetic Literacy ... - Sep 14 2015 - 8:33pm

Union of Concerned Scientists Sides With Science

A decade ago, Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) cared little about science. They were run by a staffer from the Democratic party who was put in the place to mobilize soft-money donations from friendly foundations and political committees. Republicans wer ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 19 2015 - 12:02pm

Decline Of Language — Are Women To Blame?

Recently we were treated to a repeat of a three part series, ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Aug 20 2015 - 8:17am

Hospice Use Is Not A Good Indicator Of End-Of-Life Care

Though it is the common metric, hospice use is not really an indicator of quality of end-of-life care. Instead, when researchers in the U.S. studied variations in patterns of hospice use between states, they found troubling trends.  Shi-Yi Wang, MD, PhD, Y ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 20 2015 - 12:59pm

The Dying Gasp Of Chuck Benbrook's Credibility

Dr. Chuck Benbrook is an economist who may be an adjunct at Washington State University but calls himself a research professor and tells the public he is an expert in biology. Why so many organic food proponents believe a guy about something as complex as ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 24 2015 - 2:58pm

Organic Food Recalls Up 700 Percent Since 2013

Imagine if Big Ag industry lobbyists created a special section inside the US Department of Agriculture, where they got to define what artificial additives would go into their products and who could check their food for accuracy in labeling, all while clai ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 22 2015 - 12:00pm

Want A Better Sex Life? Change A Diaper

Do you want a better sex life and a better relationship to go with it? Sociologists say surveys show that if men take up more of the child-care duties, splitting them equally with their female partners, heterosexual couples have more satisfaction with the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2015 - 8:30am

Political Cohesion: Why Unmarried Women Voted For Obama And Married Women Voted For Romney

Why do unmarried women tend to be more liberal and Democratic than their married counterparts? A key reason is because unmarried women-- those who have never been married and those who are divorced-- are more concerned about the status of women as a colle ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 31 2015 - 10:30am