Science & Society

Now It's Time To Target Essay Mills, Companies Which Write Student Assignments For A Fee

The U.S. college admissions scandal, where wealthy elites paid to circumvent an arbitrary entrance scoring system at some privileged schools by gaming it, has already led to lawsuits because the value of a degree from USC, Stanford, Yale and others involve ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2019 - 6:19pm

Neil Tyson Sexual Misconduct, “Investigation Complete” Raises Questions. All Are Innocent Until Proven Guilty.

N eil D. Tyson was investigated by Fox and Nat Geo for sexual misconduct, the investigation complete Cosmos and Star Talk will return to the air. This investigation would always have been of limited scope and shows at least he is no Harvey Weinstein or Bi ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Mar 16 2019 - 3:21pm

Loaded questions?

Two days ago I came across this article in Science Codex. Extremist sympathies more likely in white British and UK-born people which took me to the paper itself: Extremism and common mental illness: cross-sectional community survey of White British and Pak ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Mar 16 2019 - 12:43pm

Fans of Neil Tyson, You Should Demand The Full Sexual Misconduct Investigation Findings. OPINION

N eil deGrasse Tyson was accused by three women of various acts of sexual misconduct over time. NatGeo and Fox paid for into the sexual assault, harassment, and misconduct allegations made by Dr Katelyn N Allers (inappropriate touching under the clothes), ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Apr 1 2019 - 1:04pm

Earth Day Tequila: Toxic Carcinogen Maker Casa Herradura Is The Way To Go

Environmentalists may hate science but they love to ignore inconvenient truths about alcohol- namely that it is a toxic carcinogen the way they wish BPA, atrazine, fracking, vaccines  (insert whatever they are raising money on this week) could be. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 19 2019 - 1:44pm

The Black Hole Image Raised Us Up, Media Reactions Lowered Us Down

B y oversimplifying the complex human story of how big science done by big collaborations like Event Horizon Telescope, the mainstream media got many things wrong.    The task of the media is to inform the general public.   So, while they do have to simpl ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Apr 14 2019 - 9:29pm

Julian Assange Is Not A Journalist, So Journalists Should Not Make Him A Fourth Estate Martyr

These days, anybody with an internet connection can be a publisher. That doesn’t make everybody a journalist. This distinction has become more important than ever in light of two recent events. ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 17 2019 - 6:00am

Implicit Bias? Even Women And People Of Color Can Have It.

B iased against Women and Black People? That is what the Harvard Implicit Association test  (IAT)showed me.  I took them more than once and this was the overall result.  As a SMALL part of a large collaboration that may put hardware into space, I was invi ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Apr 27 2019 - 3:38am

Looming Doctor Shortage- Are Regulations To Blame?

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC is promoting a doomsday shortage where America is without 47-122,000 physicians, over a third of them being general practitioners, by 2032 and say it is due to the “graying” of America, both among provider ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 1 2019 - 3:08pm

FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Meeting Suggests Rogue Activist Group IARC Be Reined In

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) was once a serious, revered organization with the somber task of tackling what environmental factors caused what cancers so that we could eliminate them.(1) And they did. Their decisions for the first ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 3 2019 - 12:50pm