Science & Society

What Will Become Of Reality?

For convenience, let’s say it started with Photoshop. That program made it obvious not only that we couldn’t believe our eyes any more, but that photographic evidence could no longer be admissible in court. Socioeconomic implications were even wider, as n ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Mar 8 2025 - 9:11pm

An Earthquake In Science Utopia?

There's no question that the World Wide Web is a much different beast today than it was during the election of 2000.   Yes, it was even then a communication medium but it was primarily a way to sell dog food.   After Bush was inaugurated blogger.com, ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 18 2025 - 8:44am

How Proposition 65 Made Products More Expensive Even Outside California

When the Proposition 65 referendum, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, was being debated, concerns about abuse and high cost were dismissed by the lawyers behind it with the assurance that lawyers wouldn't decide what products ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 7 2025 - 10:19am

U.S. Forest Service Thanks Environmentalists For Getting Out Of The Way

It's taken decades but the U.S. Forest Service is finally being allowed to use science in managing America's natural resources. Instead of environmental activists tying up science and the government by using other government regulations and red t ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 16 2025 - 10:29am

Journalists Are Right To Question The Credibility Of IARC

The International Agency for Research on Cancer got a skeptical look from journalists and the general public after epidemiologists in the UN group declared that sausage is as dangerous as cigarette smoking, plutonium, mustard gas and asbestos.     That doe ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 16 2025 - 1:27pm

Reuters Exposes Another IARC Controversy

The International Agency for Research on Cancer, a  United Nations epidemiological group located in France, has been around since the 1960s but only recently got a skeptical look from journalists and the general publi. Because they declared that sausage is ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 21 2025 - 2:58pm

US Government Wants To End 54 Years Of Subsidized Media

The Trump administration’s drive to slash government spending on everything from the arts to cancer research also includes efforts to carry through on the Republican Party’s long-standing goal of ending federal funding for NPR, the nation’s public radio n ...

Article - The Conversation - May 2 2025 - 2:09pm

Food Babe Learns The Unlisted Controversial Ingredient In Budweiser

Vani Hari, the Food Babe, has demanded answers Self-proclaimed Food Babe, Vani Hari has an online petition as k ing demanding that Anheuser-Busch and Miller Coors, America’s largest beer brands "disclose their full set of ingredients online ...

Article - Norm Benson - May 3 2025 - 10:53am

Coronavirus Has Caused Democrats To Move Back Toward Trust In Science

A year ago, and for this entire century, the nexus of anti-vaccine beliefs and other denial of science has been Democratic states. While places like Mississippi and Alabama had vaccine rates near 100 percent, an infectious disease crisis that began on the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 6 2025 - 11:02am

No Nonsense Nutrition Advice Most Of You Will Ignore In 2009

America is slightly schizophrenic when it comes to weight.   If you open a newspaper you can simultaneously read that the five skinny women left must need counselling and society is to blame for that but anorexia is genetic even though that gene seems to ...

Article - News Staff - May 12 2025 - 8:22am