Science & Society
- It's Time For Racism In College Admissions To Go
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The Shackled Man hypothesis rightly notes that if two people are running a race, and one has leg irons on, the shackled person is going to perform poorly. 50 yards into the race, if we remove the leg irons, claiming that everyone now has an equal chance to ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 1 2015 - 7:36am
- For Ph.D. Physicists, Careers Outside Academia Are Terrific
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Government-funded science spends a lot of money promoting the idea that only government-funded science is real science, even though almost 60 percent of basic research and almost 100 percent of applied research is done by the private sector. It has worked. ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2015 - 7:00am
- $4,200 And Up: Millions Of Children's Lives Saved Through Government Programs
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More than 34 million children's lives have been saved since 2000 because of investments in child health programs at a cost of as little as $4,205 per child, according to a new analysis in The Lancet. This analysis builds off the work of an internatio ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2015 - 8:28pm
- Why We Still Love Alice In Wonderland
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Few in the English-speaking world (and even the non-English-speaking world) are unfamiliar with Alice and her encounters with nonsense and play in Wonderland, whether through the original texts, or their many adaptations. Alice has walked across pages, sta ...
Article - The Conversation - Jul 5 2015 - 2:34pm
- A Call To Ban Individuals From Shooting Off Fireworks
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Another Fourth of July is here, the time for backyard barbecues, picnics, cookouts, parades, swimming and fireworks. One of those Independence Day pastimes, however, stands apart: fireworks. They’re a somewhat controversial topic in the US and are covered ...
Article - The Conversation - Jul 6 2015 - 7:30am
- The Chocolate Hoax Only Fooled Mainstream Media
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Think the 'chocolate as miracle food' hoax was something new? ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 22 2019 - 7:06pm
- Among Academics, Patent Filings By Women Have Risen The Fastest
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Though women outnumber men in all but tenured positions, there is concern that the numbers are still not high enough. If that is true, you wouldn't know it by filing patents with the U.S. Patent and Trade Office over the past 40 years. ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2015 - 9:01am
- Scare Culture Is Making People Enjoy Food Less
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The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is making $100 million per year scaring people about food and other science. It isn't helping the public be any safer, it is just making people enjoy food less, according to a new study. ...
Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2015 - 7:30am
- Medical Child Abuse Or Desperate Parents?
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When you can be arrested for letting your children go to the park alone, we might be a little hyper-vigilant, yet on the other side multiple times per week there is indignation that child protective services failed to stop some idiot parents who were harmi ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 21 2015 - 6:39am
- Wacko Conspiracy Sites: The Intercept
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They don't directly talk about us, they talk about a guy at a think tank who used to be a staffer for the Council a decade ago, which would be a logical fallacy but I don't want to use big words and confuse journalists at The Intercept. ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 22 2019 - 7:08pm
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