Science & Society

Contemporary Polymath: How The Renaissance Man Is Making A Comeback

As anyone who has visited the London Science Museum’s current exhibition will know, Leonardo da Vinci is famed as an artist, mathematician, inventor, writer … the list goes on. He was a figure who did not see disciplines as a checkerboard of independent b ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 27 2016 - 9:20am

Does lower literacy make you a sucker for online health ads?

Patients with lower literacy levels in search for health information may gravitate toward websites advertising services and products, a small study by researchers at Loyola University suggests. ...

Blog Post - Brandon T. Bisceglia - Apr 29 2016 - 10:26am

Obama, Ancestry, and DNA

On the 23 rd of April, Barack Obama, President of the United States of America (fanfare!) issued a warning to us British that at the coming referendum we should vote to remain in the EU.  Reactions have been many and varied: some of these can be found in ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - May 2 2016 - 4:43am

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