Science & Society

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

Fertility Treatment: Same-Sex Couples Face More Obstacles

Same-sex couples encounter more obstacles to fertility treatment than traditional couples,  said Ann V. Bell, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Delaware, who noted that the U.S. medical system is standardized to work with heterosexu ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 24 2015 - 7:30am

Military Veterans Live In More Diverse Neighborhoods

When members of the U.S. military leave the service, they tend to settle in neighborhoods with greater overall diversity than their civilian counterparts of the same race, according to a new study that will be presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2015 - 3:00pm

Democrats Have Disavowed Thomas Jefferson- Maybe Washington, D.C. Will Have To Change Its Name Too

Democratic parties in four states have recently removed the names of Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson from their annual fundraising dinners, a move now under consideration in at least five other states. ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 25 2015 - 7:00am

Sustainability Won’t Make The World More Fair

The world’s governments are preparing to finalize the Sustainable Development Goals at the United Nations in September 2015. It is set to be a major international event, and the goals will be ushered in with tremendous fanfare; they are widely regarded as ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 26 2015 - 7:00am

Environmental Working Group, Gary Hirshberg And Organic Activists- All The Influence Money Can Buy

My husband is used to hearing snark about being a lobbyist. As the owner of a lobbying firm in Chicago, he takes most derogatory comments about his profession in stride. So imagine my surprise when he became outraged reading aloud a boilerplate descriptio ...

Article - Genetic Literacy ... - Aug 27 2015 - 7:30am