Science Education & Policy

Government Penalizes Hospitals That Treat The Poor- And There Are More To Come

Last week, the Obama administration stated that it will fine over 2,600 hospitals because too many Medicare patients treated at those hospitals end up back in the hospital within 30 days of going home.  Over 200,000 doctors have said they will no longer p ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2019 - 10:02am

Recreational Marijuana Purchases Without ID Are Common- 71 Percent Allowed It, Even For Kids

Though young people are able to obtain alcohol and drink it, their ability to buy alcohol at point of sale is almost nonexistent. That is not the case with recreational cannabis, where early adopter states have a shocking 37 percent rate of youth being abl ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2019 - 11:16am

The Republican Counterpart To The Democrats Green New Deal Won't Get Press But It May Be More Realistic

When it comes to the political divide in America, the key difference in science is that academia has mostly Democrats while private sector scientists are mostly Republicans. There are big tents in a two-party system so a liberal New York cop will have noth ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 12 2020 - 6:01pm

Cashew Spread Is Not Butter And States Are Closing Regulatory Loopholes FDA Will Not

Ever since President Clinton turned the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 into law, taking away federal authority over food and supplements unless bodies started dropping, the US Food and Drug Administration has been a little timid in doi ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 3 2020 - 10:41am

Bipartisan Legislation Hopes To Promote Science-Based Product Labeling And Packaging

Packages and labels can be a bit of a mess in the 21st century. What is GMO plastic? Who knows? Yet a company named World Centric is selling ZeroWare 2.0 Reusable Dishware- "alternative" tableware they note is not only free of melamine, which the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 3 2020 - 11:41am

Coronavirus Shows The Precautionary Principle Blocking Science Advances Has Failed- We Need To Stop It

California Governor Gavin Newsom has gone just this side of declaring martial law due to a.000008 risk of death from COVID-19. His promotion of panic has led to depletion of essential goods nationwide. With 40,000,000 people and the fifth largest economy i ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 20 2020 - 9:55am

New York Is Blaming Washington DC For Its Coronavirus Problem

In 2015, New York Governor Mario Cuomo and his politically allied state legislature told experts to create a rationing plan for ventilators in case of a pandemic in the state. Though Ebola was wrecking Africa and coronavirus had done the same to the mid-ea ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 31 2020 - 10:53am

The Strategic National Stockpile Was Not Designed For An Extreme Event

As the COVID-19 crisis unfolds, Americans have been hearing a lot about an obscure but vast federal trove of emergency supplies, the Strategic National Stockpile. ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 2 2020 - 1:01pm

Coronavirus Treatment Retraction Shows The Life Sciences Are Too Often ‘A House Built On Sand’

The International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents has already  retracted  a March 20th paper analyzing hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19, the disease that can result from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China late last yea ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 15 2020 - 10:29am

Manuscript on Chemical Bonds: Lesson 2 Periodic Trends

This is the second in a series of topics on Chemical Bonds.hibr /> This is intended  for use in general chemistry classes. More particularly, for non-chemistry major and high school students. Why Hank's Campbell's Science 2.0 website? Well, t ...

Blog Post - Camilo Tabinas - Apr 30 2020 - 8:54am