Science & Society

Fact Checking Dr. Oz's Fact Checker

Dr. Oz has done a lot of things right recently. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 11 2020 - 2:58pm

Less Than 2% Of OB-GYNs Take The 8-Hour Course Needed To Prescribe This Opioid Life Saver

Buprenorphine, a lifesaving opioid addiction medicine, is FDA-approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in pregnant women, but doctors need an X-waiver, a certification that allows them to prescribe opioid treatment medications. Buprenorph ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 12 2020 - 1:02pm

COVID-19- Things Are Starting To Get Better

A meta-analysis of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the 2019 form of coronavirus that led to the COVID-19 pandemic, found that the chance an infected person showing symptoms was infecting someone else even in their home was on ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 17 2020 - 1:51pm

Either Negative Reviews Boost Sales Or They Won't Stop Good Products

A recent computer model finds that it doesn't hurt a product to negative reviews and it may even help. A flawless product does not exist, people are suspicious if they see no bad reviews, and using game theory, the researchers analyzed how negative re ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 17 2020 - 6:26pm

Progressive And Libertarian Reasons To Love The Guardians Of The Space Force

S pace Force has chosen the term guardians for what to call them.  As in Army soldiers, Navy sailors, Marines…marines.  What gets tricky now a days is calling Airmen, air men. Some have said that guardians are too sci fi.  The truth is it really is not, a ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 20 2020 - 9:01am

Call Jill Biden Doctor Only If You Also Say Doctor Einstein. An Informed Opinion.

I t is not sexist to avoid calling Jill Biden Doctor Biden in situations where her doctorate is not relevant. ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 21 2020 - 2:49pm

Christmas For Atheists

We don’t need to be Christian to celebrate Christmas. That’s been true for a long time. We don’t even need to be religious. Considering the commercialization of the holiday, that might be an advantage. But there is no way to get around the religious icono ...

Article - The Conversation - Dec 21 2020 - 7:04pm

How Academics Can Help US Move Forward From January 6th 2021.

J an 6 th 2020 will be remembered as a day of farce and tragedy in close proximity.  Right now, passions are high, tensions are high.  Right now, is the time when scientist and academics must hew to our basic principles and the principles embodied in the ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jan 9 2021 - 11:06pm

Moving The Apocalypse Goalposts: Goofy Doomsday Clock Now Invokes Coronavirus In Risk Of Nuclear Destruction

The Doomsday Clock, a marketing gimmick of the anti-nuclear group Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, gets an unreal amount of attention from political allies in journalism in a way that scientists can't understand any more than how Environmental Worki ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 1 2021 - 3:01pm

Oumuamua Was Not Aliens, Avi Loeb Is Not Wrong, The Reporting Is.

Oumuamua was hypothesized by Avi Loeb to be an alien probe due to its apparent very flat shape and hyperbolic path through the solar system.  It was almost certainly not an alien probe.  The orbit indicates that it is an object that was never gravitationa ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Feb 2 2021 - 11:28pm