Science Education & Policy

Gateway Belief Model: The Consensus On Using The Consensus To Convince People About Science

Does it work to communicate the scientific consensus to the public? If anti-science beliefs about energy, medicine, and agriculture are any indication, sure.  We don't get bans on science in the U.S. the way Europe aggressively denies the consensus pr ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 8 2019 - 3:07pm

Nearly Half Of US States Want To Stop Misleading Food Claims- ACLU Wants To Promote Them

Decades ago, Velveeta had to be labeled “Pasteurized Prepared Cheese Product" so that customers could have truth in labeling. It was not "cheese", said the government.  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission even even told Kraft they could not ev ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 14 2019 - 11:37am

22 States Sue To Take Away The Federal Government's Decision Making In Tackling Climate Change

The never-enacted Obama Clean Power Plan was scuttled by the Supreme Court in 2016 and its defense later abandoned by the Trump administration. Though it is fashionable to claim that means Republicans hate climate science, the reality is it was an expensiv ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 14 2019 - 12:08pm

Eisenhower Didn't Just Warn Us About The Military-Industrial Complex, He Worried About Government-Controlled Science Too

Since science is both corporate and political in the modern era (the private sector and government each fund about half of basic research in the U.S.), if you defend science you are implicitly defending corporations and engaging in politics. Whether you t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 28 2019 - 11:50am

The Contentious House Hearing On Vaping

Opposing views on e-cigarettes, witnesses interrupting members of Congress and even a wink. A hearing Tuesday on the epidemic of respiratory injuries linked to vaping was one unusual show. Since the spring, hundreds of reports have surfaced about severe l ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2019 - 7:00am

Agrobacterium: The Obama Adminiistrarion Did One Good Thing For Biotech That Trump Should Keep

President Donald Trump spent a great deal of his early days in the White House rolling back decisions made by his predecessor. That is the usual political stuff; President Barack Obama also did it to President George W. Bush. But there is one science polic ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 30 2019 - 11:19am

My Comment To FDA On 'Horizontal Approaches To Food Standards Of Identity Modernization'

In September, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration held a public meeting to discuss FDA’s effort to modernize standards of identity as part the agency's Nutrition Innovation Strategy. In 2018, FDA declared its intent to modernize food standards of to ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 12 2019 - 5:10pm

Fact Checking Elizabeth Warren's $11 Trillion Out-Of-Pocket Health Spending Over 10 Years Claim

By Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News. Promoting her much-discussed plan to create a single-payer “Medicare for All” health system, Sen. Elizabeth Warren emphasized a striking figure. “If we make no changes over the next 10 years, Americans will reach into ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 14 2019 - 10:37am

Dr. Gottlieb, Tell Private Label Brands Not To Cave In To Non-GMO Project Extortion

When Dr. Scott Gottlieb  was named as head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the pro-science community cheered. Gottlieb had both academic and private sector experience, he had been both doctor and patient, and he had been a Deputy at FDA in the p ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 18 2019 - 3:56pm

5 Things Schools Can Do To Promote News Literacy

When it comes to news literacy, schools often emphasize fact-checking and hoax-spotting. But as I argue in my new book, schools must go deeper with how they teach the subject if they want to help students thrive in a democratic society. As a new poll show ...

Article - The Conversation - Nov 23 2019 - 6:01am