Science & Society

Is It Still Journalism If You Work For Greenpeace?

The surest way to tell if an organization is a politically partisan one is if they make sure to claim flaws in their opposition and ignore the entire swath of the people on their side. Sourcewatch, for example, can't find a single thing wrong with Na ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 18 2015 - 5:55pm

Do Internet Campaigns Motivate Users To Respond To Crises?

Is the public jaded to Internet marketing campaigns concerning overseas crises? ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2015 - 10:55am

Publish Or Perish- And Cut Corners

Last week there was another very public case of a journal article being retracted as a result of academic misconduct. This time it was in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), with the lead author – Dr Anna Ahimastos, working at Melbourn ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 22 2015 - 6:36pm

Understanding Self-Control: Eating And Spending Are Different Public Policy Issues

You can resist buying a candy bar while you're waiting in the checkout line at the grocery store--but you'll buy any pair of shoes that are on sale. Your best friend, in contrast, wouldn't dream of buying a pair of shoes he thinks he doesn& ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2015 - 11:00am

Gender Quotas In Academia-- Will They Mean Better Research?

Authors of a new report have examined the use of gender quotas to increase the number of women at the highest career levels in academia. 'Exploring quotas in academia', a report of a study conducted by EMBO in collaboration with the Robert Bosch ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2015 - 12:44pm

Almost Half Of US Seafood Supply Is Wasted, Mostly By Consumers

As much as 47 percent of the edible U.S. seafood supply is lost each year, mainly from consumer waste, according to a paper in Global Environmental Change, which takes advantage of a recent spotlight on the sustainability of the world's seafood resou ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2015 - 6:30am

Environmental Activism Puts NYC At Risk Of Future Flooding During Hurricanes

Whether or not a coastal city floods during a hurricane depends on the storm, tide and sea level, and now a team of climate scientists show that the risk of New York City flooding has increased dramatically during the industrial era as a result of human-c ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2015 - 2:19pm

American Council On Science And Health Embraces Transparency: Will Others Follow?

If you get money from a corporation, are you for sale? It’s obviously a silly question, since almost everyone in America signs the backs of checks ratherr than the front of them, yet much of the public tends to think that if a scientist gets funding from ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 30 2015 - 5:42am

Process Labels: Bridging The Informational Gap Or Confusing Consumers?

In the early days of food labeling and regulations, it was just about mandating honesty. If you go to buy mayonnaise, you shouldn't have to wonder if it is mayonnaise (1), and then labels became a marketing distinction. Better ingredients meant a bet ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 4 2018 - 1:54pm

Online Market For Invasive Plants Is Booming

Goldenrod, Himalayan balsam, Chinese windmill palm: three plants, one problem. All are native to continents other than Europe, but were introduced to Switzerland as garden or ornamental plants. At some point they "escaped" into the wild, where t ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2015 - 11:30am