Science & Society

Statistical Methods For Fundamental Science Course Starts Tomorrow

From tomorrow onwards (once or twice a week until February 5), I will be giving an online course on the topic of " Statistical Methods for Fundamental Science " for the INSTATS organization. This is a 5-day, 15-hour set of lectures that I put tog ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jan 14 2024 - 6:43am

Resilience: Debunking The Debunker

Sarah Green Carmichael, in a Bloomberg News item titled “You don’t need more resilience, you need friends, and money” debunks the business gurus who tell us all resilience comes from inside us. Sarah’s thesis is that our environments determine our resilie ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Jan 15 2024 - 10:55am

The Harvard Anti-Semitism Controversy Also Revealed The Scholarship Cancer Inside Academia

University of Kentucky political science Professor Stephen Voss, who was plagiarized by Harvard President Claudine Gay, said it was no big deal. It was even expected she would use his work without attribution? He seems to think so. “It would have been quit ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 15 2024 - 7:26pm

Scare Journalism And Miracle Cures: American Media Prefer Weak Observational Studies

A new analysis has affirmed what many in the science audience already knew; mainstream media prefer weak observational studies. It's why you're reading this article here instead of the New York Times. And that is not just in regards to social psy ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 24 2024 - 8:40am

"It Was Not Designed As A Science Experiment"- Seralini Speaks Some Truth

Dr. Gilles-Eric Seralini, the go-to researcher for Big Organic marketing groups and the partisan media enablers (SourceWatch, US Right To Know, Mother Jones) they fund, finally wrote something accurate in a paper- "it was not designed as a scientific ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 26 2024 - 10:07am

Why Do More Environmentalists And Organic Food Shoppers Believe Vaccines Cause Autism?

I enjoyed a drink one time with a fellow who was, even for science blogging, left of left.    I won't name names because it doesn't matter, he is a talented writer and a good guy but I always feel like he loves politics more than science and his ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 31 2024 - 9:30am

The Hill Promotes A Cell Phone Conspiracy Theorist

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Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 4 2024 - 9:56am

Are More Blizzards A Teaching Moment For Climate Change Or A PR Headache?

On the face of it, Al Gore conducting a global warming conference during a blizzard a few years ago looked bad.   But maybe it was a teaching moment. The weather has always had swings and separating weather from climate is a key aspect in understanding why ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 7 2024 - 10:12am

The Most Likely To Confront Racism Are White People

White people are more likely to confront those who post racist content on social media. On surveys, at least, but on surveys very few people say they are anti-science, or even anti-vaccine. Not from 1998 to 2021, when coastal cities dominated vaccine exemp ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2024 - 10:33am

Gender Bias: Both Men And Women Prefer To See Women In Google Image Searches

If Google image search results overwhelmingly returned results showing men, that would be evidence that ending gender bias still has a long way to go. In the bias community, results showing women are the same thing. And the authors of a new paper say femal ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 16 2024 - 12:29pm