Science & Society

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

Subsidies Double Alternative Energy Capacity Since 2005

Renewable energy targets mandates and subsidies now in place in 164 countries powered the growth of solar, wind and other green technologies to record-breaking energy generation capacity in 2014. So to advocates that means CO2 emissions and growth do not ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 23 2015 - 7:13am

One Agricultural Scientist's Concerns About The Future Of The Food Supply

I’m generally optimistic about the ability of the world’s farmers to continue to feed the growing population, and also to satisfy the increased food demand of the growing middle class in previously poor countries. That hope is based on the amazing track re ...

Article - Steve Savage - Jun 20 2015 - 6:42am

Child Fitness Worse Than Feared- And Obesity Is Not To Blame

Child fitness levels are falling at an even faster rate than first feared- and it has nothing to do with obesity, according to a new study. Of more than 300 pupils aged between 10 and 11 who took part, the researchers expected that children with a lower BM ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2015 - 10:00am

The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Here, Declare Hysterical Academics

There is no longer any doubt: We are entering a mass extinction that threatens humanity's existence, according to a rather ridiculous claim by doomsday prophet Professor Paul Ehrlich, the same author of the Population Bomb who has been saying this sam ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2015 - 11:22am

The Cost Of Vermont GMO Labeling Law- Millions To Consumers

Vermont's somewhat odd GMO warning label law, which made sure to exempt anything that would impact Just Label It yogurt millionaire Gary Hirshberg 's supply of dairy and import things like alcohol, restaurants and the Whole Foods deli section, i ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 20 2015 - 10:30am

Obamacare Argument: ACA Medicaid Expansion Will Make States Money

21 states have opted not to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), arguing that the expansion would be too expensive. And since California had to convince taxpayers with a state government mandate to remain revenue neutral on the program, ba ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2015 - 8:00am

Female Faculty Should Get Bonus Points To Correct For Gender Bias In Student Evaluations

Now that most colleges and universities have completed their spring semesters, course instructors are opening up sealed manila envelopes, all over the country, to read their teaching evaluations. And, like each year, what they’ll find has been pervasively ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 25 2015 - 10:31am