Science & Society

PNAS Issues Expression Of Concern About Facebook Experiment Study

PNAS has issued an expression of concern about a study it published where Facebook attempted to manipulate the emotions of members by controlling their news feed (10.1073/ pnas.1320040111). But they only bothered to notice and say anything after the outra ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 9 2025 - 12:14am

No, Trump’s Executive Orders Can’t Cancel Your Rights.

D onald Trump does not have the power to rescind either constitutional amendments or federal laws by mere executive order, no matter how strongly he might wish otherwise. No president of the United States of America has that power. The media and public ne ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jan 22 2025 - 2:22pm

Overcoming Misinformation And Reconnecting With Science Deniers

 Scientific information has never been more widely accessible than it is today. While this increased availability fosters awareness and collaboration, it has also contributed to a concerning surge in misinformation and disinformation, especially in the Un ...

Article - Payal Joshi - Feb 4 2025 - 6:14pm

When Told Lower Incomes Mean Less School Funding, College Students Become More Liberal

So many people want to move to the United States of America because virtually anyone who arrives legally can start a business with little problem and get rich. A lot of people born in the US would rather be born in a place where they can never get rich but ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 7 2025 - 2:40pm

Prop 65 Is A California Gimmick That Raises Prices For The Poor

Proposition 65 was a voter referendum that stated if a chemical was correlated to cancer, it needed to have a cancer warning label. Lawyers who were behind the public relations effort to get it passed assured consumers it would not be abused. Yet a few yea ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 13 2025 - 4:42pm

The Sexual Evolution- Gender And Nature May Be More Complex Than You Believe

I have a trans flag flying from my house but I completely understand concerns by women that they're being set back 60 years if someone born a biological man starts setting female swimming or boxing records. Women have their own sports because we turne ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 5 2025 - 3:32pm

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