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Misinformation Common Among Women With Breast Cancer

Vaccines are getting American media attention now that Republicans are engaging in misinformation...

Even With Universal Health Care, Mothers Don't Go To Postnatal Check-Ups

For decades, health care costs have been a political topic in America. Advocates argue it is the...

Happy Twelfth Night - Or Divorce Day, Depending On How Your 2026 Is Going

Today is, in Christian observance, Twelfth Night, the end of The 12 Days of Christmas in that song...

Blood Pressure Medication Adherence May Not Be Cost, It May Be Annoyance At Defensive Medicine

High blood pressure is an important risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease and premature...

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America - Still The Place To Be For Science

Sep 09 2011 | comment(s)

Despite the self-loathing of progressives in American science academia, America is a pretty good place to be, even after 15 years of onerous visa restrictions that have made it difficult to hire the best people and forces immigrants educated here to return home because they aren't allowed to work.

Well, legal immigrants anyway. Illegal immigrants even get cheaper tuition in California.

Home Schooling Gets An A+ In Canada

Sep 09 2011 | comment(s)

Can professional teachers in a crowded classroom hobbled by arcane government policies teach kids well? Probably, in most cases, but institutionalized education and their unions have gone to war against any changes to the status quo, even when the status quo is clearly broken. The only acceptable change is more money.

Home schooling can do a great job, if it is structured and has a formal curriculum. It may even be an advantage, according to a new study in Canada.

Meat Eaters Are Anti-Social Psychologist Diederik Stapel Sacked

Sep 08 2011 | comment(s)

Can we get three cheers for psychology? The bulk of the quality researchers in the field have consistently been under fire because of researchers like Satoshi Kanazawa and Marc Hauser but have started taking their discipline back.

Circling the wagons around researchers was never a good idea but, well, things happen and psychologists are people too. Yet over the last year they have begun clearing out the ranks and now Dutch social psychologist Diederik Stapel, who runs the Tilburg Institute for Behavioral Economics Research, has been sacked.

Environmentalists: Save More Species By Accepting Science

Sep 08 2011 | comment(s)

Unfortunate subsets of some militant environmental groups believe that anyone who uses the land, including quite responsibly, is an enemy.

Gibson Guitars And The Lacey Act Misused

Sep 03 2011 | comment(s)

The Lacey Act is one of few government regulations I have praised for its effectiveness. Few government regulations are actually designed to help anyone, they are either designed to hobble someone in order to artificially level the playing field or they are designed to boost a special interest. This act levels the playing field, but for the benefit of companies that are ethical.

Weekend Science: Haute Couture Through History

Sep 02 2011 | comment(s)

Haute couture through history? It is when St. Pölten takes the Catwalk!

If your only knowledge of Stone Age fashion is stricly limited to old Flintstones cartoons, you are in luck. On September 23rd the University of Applied Sciences (UAS) in St. Pölten, Austria will be parading clothing from over ten millennia, a journey through time and the world of fashion.