Science & Society

Get Radical- And Maybe Be A Better Scientist

In an open science community like Science 2.0, people will feel like they can just sign up and babble about anything and if you protest that what they are doing is not really science (wormholes, brand new theory of everything, social psychology, etc.), the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 10 2024 - 2:31pm

The Sublime Idiocracy Of the 2024 Drone Panic. 99.99% Chance They Are Just Planes And Stars.

T he "drone panic" of 2024 easily claims the title of the most absurd astronomy and physics-related story of the year. At its core, 99.99% of this so-called crisis boils down to people mistaking planes for something extraordinary. The rest? It&# ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 14 2024 - 10:33am

Science Left Behind 2014: The Anti-Vaccination Update

Science Left Behind, a book I co-authored in 2012 with Dr. Alex Berezow, covered the ways that anti-science beliefs had become mainstream among political progressives in the United States.  It addressed dozens of topics but the three biggest ones denied b ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 19 2024 - 10:40am

Sexist Weather And Hermaphroditic Frogs: The Problem Of Faux Peer Review

In today's Wall Street Journal, I have an article discussing recent problems in peer review. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 9 2025 - 12:13am

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