Science & Society

Pierce Brosnan Is Why The Science Community Should Boycott The Breakthrough Prize Foundation Ceremony On National Geographic

The Breakthrough Prize Foundation has breathlessly announced that "acclaimed actor, producer and philanthropist Pierce Brosnan" will host the Breakthrough Prize ceremony, which they have self-declared is the “Oscars of Science”, on November 4th. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 13 2019 - 4:47pm

Transgender: Don't Have To Like Us, Can't Define Us Away Anymore Than Any Other Part Of Human Nature.

W hether you believe transgender men are men or transgender women are women you cannot deny the basic fact that we exist.   You may not like that a group of people exist.  You may disagree with how a group of people either choose or are compelled by their ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Oct 23 2018 - 1:18pm

6 Essential Comic Books For Halloween

Comic books of the 1950s and 1960s made a point of their potential to terrify, with anthologies from Entertaining Comics, such as Haunt of Fear, Vault of Horror, and Tales of the Crypt, boasting covers with straplines such as “Within these pages dwell cre ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 31 2018 - 11:54am

Stephen Hawking: 'There Is No God'- God: 'There Is No Stephen Hawking'

In his just published final book, "Brief Answers to the Big Questions," physicist Satephen Hawking wrote, "There is no God. No one directs the universe" but in a universe where only 6% of what must exist is even matter that can be detec ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 1 2018 - 4:18pm

Wiley Debunks Fake News Censorship Claims

John Wiley  &  Sons Inc., the global academic publishing house with nearly $2 billion in revenue, recently got embroiled in a Twitter controversy about the efforts of one publication to go open access. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 30 2018 - 5:44pm

Social Psychologists Don't Trust Evolutionary Psychologists- And Scientists Don't Trust Either

Do you want to believe that your car grill is determined by your personality or that lap dancers get better tips when they are ovulating? You probably like evolutionary psychology. Want to believe that surveys of psychology undergraduates at elite schools ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 30 2018 - 11:26am

Women Only Earn 49% Of What Men Do, If You Use The Right Helping Verb

Women May Earn Just 49 Cents on the Dollar, is the title of an article by Annie Lowrey in The Atlantic. It's only below the fold that, after laying out lots of links and obfuscation and conflicting claims designed to make the audience believe the situ ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 29 2018 - 4:46pm

Neil deGrasse Tyson Rape: Fox and Nat Geo Must Have Known.

Fox and National Geographic are investigating the allegations made against Neil DeGrasse Tyson of sexual misconduct reported on by David G McAfee. In an AP story, which does not mention the rape allegation, that she had no idea there were any allegations ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 1 2018 - 3:58pm

Sir David Attenborough Tells The UN Global Warming Is Causing The 'Collapse Of Civilization'

In 2006, former Vice-President and global warming clarion Al Gore said we only had 10 years to stop CO 2 emissions or it would be too late. More cynical people noted that he came up with that 10-year figure because it was two years from his rematch contest ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 5 2018 - 3:33pm

The Guardian Lets Legal Clerk Erin Brockovich Trump Biology, Toxicology, And Chemistry

The Guardian, official newspaper of those in the anti-science left who still like to pretend they love science, knows what pays the bills...and it ain't science. Yes, some real scientists write there, because it's mainstream media and scientists ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 7 2018 - 3:22pm