Science & Society

NHS Would Rather Be In The European Union Than In Britain

The NHS is far safer inside the European Union, argues Professor Martin McKee at the London School of Hygiene&Tropical Medicine in The BMJ today. He says the EU's international trade agreements now protect public services and that any threat to t ...

Article - News Staff - May 5 2016 - 2:25pm

Professors Often Lose Free Speech Disputes With Universities

When does free speech become important? In the halls of academia, it often comes down along political and cultural lines. An endorsement of business mogul Donald Trump leaves academics and students running for a safe speech while a professor bullying a jo ...

Article - News Staff - May 10 2016 - 1:07pm

Dark Money Funded Site PRWatch Says Scientists Are Fronts For Corporations

The political attack site PRWatch, one arm of the dark-money funded group self-named as the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), is run by a former attorney for the Clinton administration which slashed funding for real science in the 1990s (1) while promo ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 11 2016 - 4:37pm

Sexual Harassment in Science What Have We Learned (OP ED)

S exual Harassment in academic scientific context, why did it shock us?    What we learned over the last six months is that scientist male and female are still human.   Humans when placed in social context will behave like social and sexual animals that w ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - May 23 2016 - 3:21pm

Would President Donald Trump Be Good For Science?

In USA Today, Dr. Alex Berezow and I ask what a Trump presidency might mean for science. The reason to ask is obvious; he might win. And science is one of America’s most important strategic resources. We lead in Nobel prizes and with just five percent of ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 26 2016 - 7:30am

Palliative Hospice Care Lacking Among Dying Cancer Patients

Medical societies recommend that patients with advanced cancer receive palliative care soon after diagnosis, and receive hospice care for at least the last three days of their life. Those recommendations don't match real-life practice, according to R ...

Article - News Staff - May 27 2016 - 5:35pm

Consumer’s Handbook to Scientific Claims: Absolute versus relative risk

(Part of an occasional series.) There are several ways of measuring risks. Two of the most commonly used are absolute risk and relative risk. ...

Blog Post - Brandon T. Bisceglia - May 30 2016 - 6:42pm

Anti-Science Beliefs On GMOs May Be Due To Knowledge Gap

Consumers are aware of genetically modified crops but their knowledge level is limited and often at odds with the facts, according to a new paper in the FASEB journal. Last year, Brandon McFadden, an assistant professor of food and resource economics at th ...

Article - News Staff - May 31 2016 - 6:30am

No Mother Jones, Lexus Does Not Control Hockey Game Scores

While watching the Stanley Cup match on Saturday, the first period ended and legendary sportscaster Bob Costas appeared on the screen with the Lexus Intermission Report.It made me chuckle seeing an overt corporate placement because the day before, a blogge ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 7 2016 - 10:34am

Forest Products Company Takes Greenpeace To Court For Racketeering

For what seems like decades, it has been open season on scientists and corporations by environmental non-profit corporations and the PR groups they fund to be their hatchet men, like SourceWatch and Mother Jones. Libel? No problem, Lisa Graves at SourceWat ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 2 2017 - 3:03pm