Science & Society

No Media Gatekeepers Needed: Over Half The Public Now Regard Scientists As Good Communicators

In 2006, when Science 2.0 began, it felt like the world was ready for a writing network composed of scientists. There had already been two attempts, one failed and one wildly successful, albeit more focused on cultural issues than science. The reason it fe ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 19 2019 - 1:25pm

Scientific American Blogs Reminded People They Still Exist- By Scaremongering Vegetables And Promoting Supplements

I didn't even know Scientific American Blogs still existed. They do, they were just irrelevant and no one remembered until a few days ago. Given their recent foray into nonsense, it can be the next place where denier for hire Paul Thacker pretends to ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 23 2019 - 7:00am

In France, Gender Bias Holds Back Female Scientists

In America, more women than men receive Ph.D.s and at the faculty level are not 2:1 more likely to be offered a job. Not so in France. Only 35 percent of researchers at the French National Centre for Scientific Research are women and the reason may be bias ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2019 - 6:53pm

For New Science To Live, Old Scientists Must Die

“A great scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it,” the physicist Max Planck wrote. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2019 - 5:19pm

The Left Wing Dominates Social Media In America, In Brazil The Right Is In Charge

With fires happening in South America, the left has such dominance over social media in America they convinced the public that policies of right-wing leader Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil were to blame, while in Brazil the right's dominance of social media ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2019 - 5:53pm

Build The Thirty Meter Telescope On Mauna Kea. Sacredness And Sovereignty Have Nothing To Do With It.

A critical examination of the three main claims made by anti TMT protestors.  Here are brief rebuttals to their sacredness and sovereignty claims and lastly a scientific reason why building anywhere else on Earth is no substitute. There is no basis in law ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Aug 31 2019 - 5:15pm

Sexual Economics Debunked: Women Don't Have Less Relationship Power As They Age

Prevailing sexual economics belief posits that women have less sexual bargaining power as they age. But Baumeister and Vohs' 2004 Sexual Economic Theory (it's a proper name, like String Theory, even though it isn't really a theory, also like ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 2 2019 - 3:08pm

Builders And Plumbers More Likely To Tell The Truth Than Politicians

LONDON, October 15 /PRNewswire/-- Politicians are mistrusted by 97% of Brits and the only professions people trust less are car sales representatives and estate agents. We are twice as likely to trust a builder or plumber to give us an honest opinion over ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 4 2019 - 8:47am

TROLL ALERT: Thousands Panic Over Fake Voice Mail- Warning Alien Invasion On April 18- Alleged From MH370 Black Box‽

This is going viral on Facebook and scaring thousands of people, many panic attacks, some suicidal. This is another of my Doomsday Debunked posts to help these vulnerable people, many of them young children, still at school, who read about this on their m ...

Article - Robert Walker - Sep 4 2019 - 5:59pm

Mind The Gender Gap: Why Women Must Still Fight For Equality In Science

Pulsars were discovered by a woman, Jocelyn Bell. Credit: Wikimedia By Hazel Hall, Edinburgh Napier University What was the greatest astronomical discovery of the 20th century? Some would say pulsars – highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars emitting be ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 6 2019 - 9:12am