Science & Society

As some of you may be aware, even on the western seaboard of the Atlantic, Theresa May is shortly to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, after Andrea Leadsom withdrew from the competition to become next leader of our Conservative Party. Shortly b ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jul 13 2016 - 12:55pm

There Is Reasonable Discourse In The GMO Label Debate

In response to an overtly science-hostile bill by the state government in Vermont (1), the U.S. House of Representatives preemptively passed a softball GMO labeling law in 2015. Anti-science groups (Friends of the Earth, NRDC, Union of Concerned Scientist ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 14 2016 - 7:44pm

Have We Reached Peak Zika?

In this Policy Forum, Neil Ferguson et al. use results from a model of virus transmission to analyze the current Zika epidemic in Latin America, suggesting that it may have already peaked. Evidence increasingly suggests a causal link between Zika infectio ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2016 - 11:24am

For Environmentalists, The Summer Before Elections Is The Battle Of The Bulge

Environmental groups in major cities all across America have sent their armies marching, a last, desperate attempt to ideologically plunder everything they can before the November election. They have good reason to gain as much ground as possible now. Whi ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jul 22 2016 - 9:11am

US Could Feed Twice As Many People- If Only Elites Eat Meat

Since the early 1900s, a subset of wealthy elites with a Malthusian mindset have been convinced that the world is overpopulated. Rather than let poor people starve, as British policy in the home of Malthus advocated, later generations sought to breed out ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 24 2016 - 11:52pm

Additions to Chad Orzel’s article on physicists and philosophers

Chad Orzel wrote a column on his blog last week about James Blachowicz’s opinion piece in the New York Times titled “There is no scientific methods”. The Times article talks about how methods in science and those in, say, the humanities, are similar and t ...

Blog Post - Venkatram Harish ... - Jul 23 2016 - 11:13am

Africa Could Do With A Dose Of Punctuality And Cleanliness

There are two features of life on the African continent that are fundamentally deadly to socioeconomic development. These are lack of cleanliness and punctuality. There is plenty of discussion on macro and micro economics and the big theories of economic d ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 1 2016 - 8:32am

Fact Or Hype: Brexit Will Hurt Science Funding

Though Britain has consistently been part of formal European trading, it was with some hesitation that they entered the European Union (EU) in 1993, and they famously balked at adopting the Euro currency in 1999. During that time, fears about giving a lot ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 10 2016 - 4:05pm

Spornosexual: Not Paying Enough Taxes Linked To Men Wanting To Become Famous

There is no question that in recent decades academics have veered sharply left, and none more so than the humanities fields- but linking government spending to male body image may have set a new standard. Whereas the academic left used to attack the right ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2016 - 5:58am

Swing Voters Win Elections, So Why Do Presidential Candidates Ignore Them?

In 2012, Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney was criticized for speaking an uncomfortable truth; 47 percent of voters are voting for the same party regardless of the actual policies. In academic science, the turnout will be huge for Democratic n ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2016 - 10:41am