Science & Society

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

What's Being Done To Prevent A Terrorist Attack During Euro 2016?

While American news media speculates about how much of Omar Mateen's motivation for his attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando was due to Muslim beliefs and how much was due to anti-gay sentiment, the ease with which someone can enter soft targets has r ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 12 2016 - 2:28pm

5 Laws About Corpses That May Spook You

Death touches everyone at some stage during their lives, and usually more than once. It also triggers certain laws around what happens to the body after death – and some glaring omissions. 1. Corpse disposal – the basics Respect for the dead and protectin ...

Article - The Conversation - Jun 17 2016 - 7:36am

HIPAA: How Laws For Medical Care Hindered Response To Orlando Massacre

Buddy Dyer, a government worker in Orlando, stated, at approximately 12:30 PM on Sunday, June 12, 2016, soon after the mass shootings in Orlando, that the most important thing right now is to waive the HIPAA laws so the physicians taking care of 53 injured ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2016 - 2:12pm

The Magic Number 3? Maybe Not.

Whenever there’s a task to be done or governance to be exercised, we tend to organize for it in threes. A single power center is unworkable, as it can easily lead to dictatorship. Two is not so good either, as a disagreement can lead to indefinite and unre ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Jun 22 2016 - 5:57am

The Supreme Court Has Set Back Diversity In Education

Should your ethnicity determine whether or not you are accepted into college? Of course not, but once upon a time it was. Half a century ago, it certainly made a difference in which schools and universities you could attend. After what was morally obvious ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 23 2016 - 10:57am