Science Education & Policy

The US Leads The World In Science Output While Israel Tops Per Capita

A new index of scientific output has been released and it finds that the United States continues to dominate in research, bolstered by the private sector accounting for nearly 70 percent of science funding, where most other developed countries instead rely ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 25 2019 - 6:00am

You Weren't Born That Way- And Being Told You Are May Undermine Education

If you survey educators and students, current or former, many will claim they have a learning style-  such as visual, auditory or tactile- that they were born with, and some say it predicts both academic and career success. There is no scientific evidence ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2019 - 12:13pm

Psychologists Set Out To Conquer Anti-Science Beliefs About GMOs. Here's What Happened

Though every world science body sees no reason to be concerned about genetic engineering- hundreds of millions of humans and billions of animals have been fine with a gene in one plant that is simply found naturally in another plant, as you'd expect- ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 5 2019 - 8:46am

With "Regulatory Determinations Based On Risks" President Trump May Be The Pro-Biotech President We Need

With a new executive order, President Trump has done something that the science community has wished would have been done since the 1980s; he has ordered his administration to streamline the federal regulatory process for agricultural biotechnology so that ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 14 2019 - 2:27pm

US Immigration Policy Damaging Mental Health Of Native-born Kids With Mexican Heritage, Says Survey

A new paper in JAMA Pediatrics correlates US immigration policy to adverse mental health outcomes in kids who are not immigrants at all- but their parents were. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2019 - 11:29am

Math And Science Students Who Also Take Music Do Better On Tests- So Does Everyone Else

Math and science students do better who take music courses score significantly better on exams than their non-musical peers, and so do all students, according to a recent paper. This is a hot topic in education. Some argue that vocational schools should ma ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2019 - 11:54am

What Journalism Professors Teach Students About Their Job Prospects

For those who used to believe that taking on massive student loan debt to pay for increased salaries for university employees that would lead to a high salary, a new reality has set in: the gig economy.  And that counts in journalism too. In the days of Wa ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2019 - 7:54am

New York City: Obamacare Led To A Surge In Unnecessary Ambulance Rides

If something is free, do you use it more? It seems so, in New York City ambulance usage for minor injuries (abrasions, minor burns, muscle sprains) rose by 37 percent after the Affordable Care Act was implemented. An ambulance for a scrape? Yes, nearly 3,0 ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 15 2019 - 12:16pm

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