Science Education & Policy

Science Says 'Good Riddance' To Sen. Tom Harkin

The alternate medicine industry is about to be dealt a massive blow. Progressive Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) has decided not to run for re-election in 2014. What does that mean?  His political stonewalling of NIH studies that debunk pseudoscience woo can now co ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 1 2013 - 11:19am

Energy Secretary Steven Chu Has Resigned- Here Are 3 Things We Need In The Next One

Professor Steven Chu, who was appointed Energy Secretary under as much optimism as can be imagined in late 2008, has officially resigned, a move everyone knew was coming. Except for his irrational CO2 fanaticism- an energy Nobel laureate who takes a job in ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 6 2013 - 3:55pm

President Obama Awards 12 The National Medal Of Science

President Obama has awarded 12 researchers the National Medal of Science. 11 inventors also received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Those are the highest government honors bestowed upon scientists, engineers and inventors. This year' ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 4 2013 - 4:43pm

The 'Golden Age' Of Global Health Funding Is Not Over Yet

The moribund western economy has not doomed global health care just yet. Donations to health projects in developing countries are holding steady, according to a new paper from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Was ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 6 2013 - 6:30pm

Who Has Benefited From Science The Most? Europeans. Who Distrusts Science The Most? Europeans

This is a video from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 200th anniversary celebration. You'll need to start at minute 17 unless you are strong in northern European languages and want a musical interlude (which is actually quite civilized). ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 9 2013 - 11:00am

“Yucca Mountain Will Be There Long After Senator Reid Is Gone”

What happens when thousands of scientists do decades of research and taxpayers spend spend $15 billion on a scientifically validated site for nuclear waste storage but those science conclusions conflict with the anti-science beliefs of a president and his ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 7 2013 - 6:31pm

Climate Change: Americans Are Okay With Regulations, Not Taxes

President Obama, who was going to heal the Earth in his first term, didn't do much of that but he put climate change back on the table in his second inaugural address and a new national poll says public support for regulating greenhouse gas emissions ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2013 - 3:28pm

Will The Affordable Care Act Be Beneficial?

At the start of this year, a controversial feature of President Obama's Affordable Care Act (ACA) went into effect. Under the ACA, medical devices companies will have to pay new tax of 2.3% on gross sales. While medical devices companies have opposed ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 1 2013 - 9:24pm

Dear Asia: Please Send More Young People

Here's a good way to standardize education across the states without enraging powerful education unions and the US Department of Education: get rid of real standards. In a bit of pedagogical brilliance, California has decided to forgo algebra I, even ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 13 2013 - 12:32pm

Trolls Win: It Might Be Better To Shut Off Comments

Why are physicists thick-skinned but biologists run for the hills when the comment trolls invariably appear?  It may help to be arcane and complex- it's harder to troll hard sciences. Everyone feels like they know some biology but good luck to casual ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2013 - 8:01pm