Science & Society

China and Taiwan have enhanced government ability to be more effective in ensuring food safety and guarding against food fraud, according to a July 13th panel discussion atthe Institute of Food Technologists meeting in Chicago. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2015 - 8:00am

Montana Company Wins XPRIZE Ocean Award

Someone forgot to tell James Beck that Oceanographers are supposed to work near an ocean. ...

Article - Nicholas Staropoli - Jul 23 2015 - 1:54pm

How To Make Cancer Drugs More Affordable- Mix Naivete And Someone Else's Money

A group of academics have channeled their inner Bernie Sanders and written a wonderfully naïve op-ed about how to lower drug prices: Destroy the industry that made America the world leader in biotechnology. It's simple. Let government control drug pr ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 27 2015 - 8:20pm

57% Of Consumers Buy Meat With Special Labels

From "free range" and "grass fed" to "all natural" and "pasture raised", if there is a label that can appeal to consumers, someone will print a label. And it works. Profit margins are good in the organic/pick-a-proc ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 3 2015 - 8:30am

Half Of Biomedical Studies Aren't Reproducible – And What We Need To Do About That

What if I told you that half of the studies published in scientific journals today – the ones upon which news coverage of medical advances is often based – won’t hold up under scrutiny? You might say I had gone mad. No one would ever tolerate that kind of ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 28 2015 - 7:53pm

In The Government-Funded Big Science World, We Don't Value Cross-Disciplinary Research

Until the early 1900s, scholars took it for granted that they could draw on any area of knowledge to inform their thinking on the major questions of the day. Medieval polymaths such as Hildegard of Bingen (medicine, linguistics, botany, art, philosophy an ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 3 2015 - 8:00am

Drinking Tends To Wind Down After Couples Settle Down

Research on alcohol-use disorders consistently shows problem drinking decreases as we age. Basically, we mature in young adulthood. Psychologists believe they have found evidence that marriage can cause dramatic drinking reductions even among people with ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 3 2015 - 7:30am

Junk Science Report Card

The American Council on Science and Health has been single-minded about promoting evidence-based decision-making since 1978. The Council was formed in response to groups doing just the opposite of science, they instead perpetuated and sometimes even crea ...

Article - Gil Ross - Aug 9 2015 - 8:20am

Online Journal, The Winnower, will Issue DOI's to Reddit r/science AMA's.

The open access, open post publication peer review journal, The Winnower will issue DOI's to all past and future Reddit r/Science AMA's. The people who write on reddit, sometimes called "redditors", are known for having a large impact ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Aug 4 2015 - 8:09pm

Environmental Groups Continue Their Harassment Of Scientists

US Right to Know of Oakland, California, is using Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to suppress and harass scientists and imply they have unethical links to the agricultural biotechnology industry- in short, the group insists scientists are being ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 7 2015 - 6:47am