Science & Society

Dear Media: Please Exaggerate The Risks Of Bat Flu

If if you're in media and tired old swine flu sounds too hammy to generate page views and bird flu does not make your audience cry fowl any more, there is good disease news- scientists may have found flu in bats. If bats can get a virus, why can' ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 27 2024 - 10:44am

Social Psych For Burgers- Men Who Prefer Grilled Burgers Are More Attractive

Social and evolutionary psychology studies get a large share of media attention despite being primarily based on surveys of psychology undergraduate students. It was only a matter of time before others mimicked that process to add their own claims of scien ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 28 2024 - 12:58pm

Losing Weight Can't Cause Cancer But Welcome To Modern Epidemiology

As the century turned, the science community began to become critical of a once-honored field; epidemiology.  If you are not familiar with it, it is people who correlate causes to outcomes. They don't show it, they usually are not scientists, but they ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 7 2024 - 11:33am

Social Media Intolerance: Liberals Far More Likely To Unfriend Opposing Views

People on the left- to international readers they go under the umbrella of 'liberals' in America, but run the gamut from social authoritarian progressives to activists to freedom-loving liberals in the traditional sense- are a lot less concerned ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 15 2024 - 6:03am

Pope Francis: The Most Scientific Pope Ever

Pope Francis can claim many firsts; he is the first non-European Pope since 741 AD, the first from the Americas and the first from the Southern Hemisphere. Given his nuanced positions on science issues like climate change and agriculture, some might also c ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 15 2024 - 6:11am

Spurious Correlations: Abortion Laws May Lead To More Zika Microcephaly

ThinkProgress has found a way to use the tragedy of the Zika outbreak to advance their political agenda. America is one of two developed countries that allow abortion on demand at any stage for any reason (Canada is the other one) and the lack of a nation ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2024 - 10:01am

The Victorian Era Got Juvenile Crime Right

To modern cultural sensibilities, "Victorian" means 'repressed' because it seemed overly formal to people that want to wear flip-flops into the office, yet they clearly got some things right.(1) The name derives from the reign of Queen ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 15 2024 - 10:21am

Environmental Health Trust Now Claims 5G Cell Phones Kill Trees

Prior to 2021, if you found an anti-vaxxer, it was also going to be someone who bought organic food and thought cell phones cause cancer. While some kooky Republicans have taken over for some of the wacky left-wing people that deny vaccines, organic food a ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 15 2024 - 2:02pm

If A Weedkiller Turned You Gay, We'd Like To Interview You

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a lawyer who leveraged a name that was essentially beatified by Democrats into a lucrative career trying to promote corporate conspiracies about cell phones (cancer!), GMOs (cancer!) and vaccines(everything else!) and he had some s ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 15 2024 - 2:31pm

Medical Education And Sneetches With Stars

Proper clinical research exposure in medical school is a somewhat modern invention. Prior to changes implemented by Harvard Medical School in the 19th century, medicine was more application-focused, but gradually medical schools began to expose students t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 16 2024 - 5:20pm