Science & Society

Academic Surgery Has Fewer Women, But They Get More NIH Grants

There are disparities in many fields of academia; physics has fewer women, for example, while psychology has fewer men. Some contend that is due to discomfort in not having equal representation. But fewer members of the same sex is assuaged if there is mor ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2020 - 5:31am

Black Linguistic Justice And The Racism Of Lowered Expectations

S tandard English exist because not everyone in the world who uses English is a native speaker of English.  According to a group of English writing instructors it is racist to expect that in formal academic writing expecting standard English is racist.    ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Aug 25 2020 - 12:26pm

FDA Bureaucracy Was Unprepared For A COVID-19 Vaccine- Here Is How To Fix It

In late March of 2020, the Food and Drug Administration gave Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19. The drug is already used off-label for diseases like arthritis and given how it behaves with ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 1 2020 - 3:45pm

COVID-19: Did New York And California Achieve Herd Immunity?

Findings based on a SIR (Susceptible, Infectious or Recovered) Model of Infection Dynamics, commonly used to determine infection scenarios, including COVID-19, and presented at the Artificial Intelligence and the Coronavirus workshop at the International C ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 3 2020 - 5:25pm

COVID-19 Pandemic And Declines In Coffee Consumption Have Left Millions Struggling To Make A Living

The reopening of cafes has been one of the highlights of relaxed COVID-19 restrictions for many Australians. During lockdowns, long queues for takeaway coffee were testimony to caffeine’s relevance to our lives. ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 6 2020 - 6:49pm

No Matter Who Wins The U.S. Election, COVID-19 Social Unrest Could Be Rampant

Are Proud Boys and Antifa fighting each other 'to oppose fascism' a product of the COVID-19 pandemic? No, militant groups have always attracted people with pathologies who just need a reason to be violent, but pandemics do cause social unrest, at ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 10 2020 - 10:48am

COVID-19 Has Been A Gold Rush For Journals- But Media Coverage Of The 'Infodemic' May Confuse The Public

Are you excited about dozens of COVID-19 vaccine candidates? Do you get confused about whether or not it's as harmful to have been exposed to the 2019 SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus as it is to have COVID-19? Do you think the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine w ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 14 2020 - 8:38am

Gentle Medicine: Be Less Interventionist And Other Changes To Routine Practice

Numerous criticisms of medical science have been articulated in recent years. Some critics argue that spurious disease categories are being invented, and existing disease categories expanded, for the aim of profit. Others say that the benefits of most new ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2020 - 6:01am

18 Percent Of Americans Don't Have Enough To Eat, Which Makes Them...Obese?

More than 18 percent of U.S. adults claim they do not have access to adequate food from day to day, according to a new paper, which more than doubled between 1999 and 2016. The result: Higher obesity. People got fat from not enough food? There are obvious ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 24 2020 - 6:01am

How COVID-19 Has Changed Language

In April, the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary did something unusual. For the previous 20 years, they had issued quarterly updates to announce new words and meanings selected for inclusion. These updates have typically been made available in March ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 28 2020 - 6:01am