Science & Society

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

Neil deGrasse Tyson: Proved Scientist Are Not Infallible. A Learned Opinion.

N eil deGrasse Tyson PhD invoked the fact he had a PhD and Tchiya Amet El Maat  did not have a PhD  to imply that he is necessarily more credible than her.   Furthermore, he used her beliefs against her.   His explanation was pure argumentum ad verecundia ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 7 2018 - 11:51pm

Thanks To No FDA Oversight Of Alternative Medicine, 40% Now Believe Cancer Can Be Cured Without Science

America is the most science literate country in the world, we are dominant in Nobel prizes and science output, and we are thankful we are not France, but a new survey by Harris shows that we still have a long way to go. The results of the new survey revea ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 14 2018 - 11:28am

"She Is Batshit Crazy"- What Bruce Blumberg And Other Anti-Science Activists Say About Zen Honeycutt

Two weeks ago, CNN shocked some in the science community by having Vani Hari, who styles herself as "The Food Babe"(1), tell us that the bacterial problem on romaine lettuce was caused by modern medicine.   It was no great surprise to most of us, ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 8 2019 - 4:47pm

There Is A War Between Science And Religion

As the West becomes more and more secular, and the discoveries of evolutionary biology and cosmology shrink the boundaries of faith, the claims that science and religion are compatible grow louder. If you’re a believer who doesn’t want to seem anti-scienc ...

Article - Jerry Coyne - Dec 23 2018 - 8:00am