Science Education & Policy

Government Waste: Benefit Cuts To Teachers Won't Lead To Taxpayer Savings Anyway

Though most government workers enjoy a good life- in the last decade salaries rose to 'compete with the private sector' and they were the only group that has not suffered unemployment under the lingering recession- they are not immune from criti ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2015 - 8:52am

Defensive Medicine: Over-Testing Of Type 2 Diabetes Patients Boosts Health Care Costs

Over half of patients with controlled type 2 diabetes have many more tests than is currently recommended by national guidelines, and this has been associated with overtreatment of the condition, suggests a large US study published in The BMJ. Overtreatmen ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 9 2015 - 9:30am

Congresswomen Demand Action After Study On Obama Administration Science Funding Bias

With the release of a study that found gender bias in federal agencies that fund Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) research, Congresswomen Louise Slaughter (D-NY), Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), and Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) are demanding immediate ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 15 2015 - 8:47pm

Fat Tax: Because Body Shaming Obese People Is Not Enough

At this time of year it is common to see food drives for the less fortunate- and then we see reports saying that low-income people are disproportionately obese and can't control themselves and need to be taxed more heavily in order to eat less. How c ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 21 2015 - 3:06pm

Vegan Just Mayo Gets Approval By Redefining "Just"

The Code of Federal Regulations, which govern ‘standards of identity’, was created in 1938 specifically to prevent companies from selling fake food using established names and duping customers into thinking they got one thing while spending money on anothe ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 21 2015 - 1:01pm

Tarmac Rules Mean More Airline Passenger Delays And Cancellations

In the rush to solve mainstream media stories about airline passengers sitting on the place on the tarmac for hours and hours, the U.S. Department of Transportation's 2010 Tarmac Delay Rule glossed over concerns that it would lead to more delays and ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2016 - 2:27pm

Dry January: Abstinence Campaigns Usually Don't Work

Could alcohol abstinence campaigns like Dry January may do more harm than good? The Dry January campaign estimates that last year over 2 million people cut down their drinking for January, but popular doesn't necessarily mean effective, and the claim ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2016 - 3:01am

Guilt Goes A Long Way: Show Privileged Students They're Not Special To Create Social Justice

"Privileged" has become one of those words thrown at everyone who has been successful; it's generally a bad idea because it tells people nothing they do matters, social classes and wealth are fixed, and that cultural determinism rules it al ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 14 2016 - 11:53am

Young People After Obamacare: Mental Health Costs Way Up

The reason to force young people to buy health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was because they are an easy profit center. They won't use much in the early years but they will when they are old, when a new generation of young people wil ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2016 - 2:30pm

China Is Beginning To Catch Up To The US In Science And Technology Leadership

In the 1990s, the Clinton administration sharply reduced the number of foreign work visas- the reason was protectionism, the belief that foreign workers were taking American jobs. Things didn't work out as planned. Jobs instead went overseas and sinc ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 19 2016 - 3:11pm