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Friends Of The Earth Hate Clean Energy - And So Does President Obama

... under the Kyoto agreement - they now want the cleaner natural gas that caused the CO2 decline gone too.  But nuclear power, ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 19 2025 - 9:27am - 0 attachments

Taking A Shower Improves Moral Judgment

The next time you have to make a difficult moral decision, you might think twice about mulling it over in the bath or shower.   New research in Psychological Science has found that the physical notion of cleanliness significantly reduces the seve ...

Article - News Staff - May 7 2025 - 8:21am - 0 attachments

Bisexual, Polygyny: Satoshi Kanazawa Says He Knows Why Women Are Sexually Fluid

Controversial evolutionary psychologist  Dr. Satoshi Kanazawahas written a new evolutionary psychology paper arguing that women may have been evolutionarily designed to be sexually fluid, changing their sexual desires and identities from lesbia ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2025 - 5:19pm - 0 attachments

As Hunting Declines, So Do Conservation Efforts

... and raise money, not actually thinking about who their natural allies are. What many conservationists did not recognize is that most ... out and kill some food if you want to appreciate it. Natural cultural migrations are fine, I don't think we are worse off if few ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 7 2025 - 10:13am - 0 attachments

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.), th ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 10 2024 - 2:31pm - 0 attachments

The Socialism Paradox

I find myself fascinated how similar people, with similar values, can feel so differently about social engineering.  This comes out in political discourse, and certainly is a hot topic today, with those more in favor of socialism, which I’ll refe ...

Blog Post - James Hawkins - Sep 9 2024 - 1:33pm - 0 attachments

Sexiest Vegan: PETA Objectifies Women Again

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is continuing its long-standing policy of defending dead animals by exploiting live human women. Well, clearly it works, since I am giving them free publicity by hammering on their lack of ethics i ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 24 2024 - 8:08am - 0 attachments

Group Selfishness In Our Genes Is Original Sin - Nobel Laureate Christian De Duve

... Neil Patterson, Genetics of Original Sin: The Impact of Natural Selection on the Future of Humanity . Some of it is a little touchy-feely, lamenting exhaustion of natural resources without realizing that natural resource demands have changed ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 7 2024 - 10:20am - 0 attachments

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 - 0 attachments

Evolutionary Psychology Can't Be Wrong, Says Evolutionary Psychologist

If a crime occurs, asking the criminal what happened is unlikely to give you the most accurate picture of events.  This is why police interview the victim first.    So an evolutionary psychologist outlining how great evolutionary psychology ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 14 2023 - 10:58am - 0 attachments