Science Education & Policy

Censoring Old Films Or Mark Twain Books: Airbrushing Out Racism Is Just 'Editing The Past'

One progressive effort to wipe out racism today is to insist it's still omnipresent now but eliminate it from the past. So authors like Mark Twain, or even Ian Fleming, are shoved to the side if they examined the culture of their day uncritically. In ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 2 2023 - 4:49pm

GMO Labeling Is A Smart Marketing Strategy

Campbell Soup Co., which makes a variety of foods including the namesake soups and Prego pasta sauce, has declared their intention to put labels on their foods noting they are “partially produced with genetic engineering.” Some are lamenting this will be ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 8 2023 - 3:29pm

Solar Power Customers Will Have To Start Paying- And That's A Good Thing For Green Energy

Imagine this as a business model: You own a large potato farm. You have workers who grow and process the potatoes, you hire people to pay them, you have a sales force to sell them and then you pay trucks to ship them and have people to collect the money. Y ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 10 2023 - 1:15pm

Science And Its Demons

I)  An article recently published in Nature concludes that the percentage of disruptive scientific findings and patents is much lower than it was a few decades ago. ...

Article - Martín López Corr... - Apr 18 2023 - 4:21am

FDA Targets Puff And Hyde Disposable E-Cigarettes

In the early days of changes in laws to products like alcohol, some people below the new legal threshold were still able to get it. It was impossible to arrest everyone selling illegally, and there was a certain freedom argument many made, i.e. why can I s ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 31 2023 - 10:12am

AI And Existential Risks

With the development of the new generation of large language models (ChatGPT, Bard, etcetera) we are seeing the first hints of an accelerating pace in the progress of artificial intelligence. These innovations may turn out to be good for humanity (with all ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jun 6 2023 - 3:17am

Grass Fed, Free Range, No Antibiotics- USDA Is Cracking Down On Misleading Animal Claims

You may not know it, but the US Department of Agriculture does; if there is detection of an antibiotic in an animal off to the processing plant, the entire railcar full will be destroyed. On the other hand, if you never use antibiotics for a sick animal, y ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 14 2023 - 3:07pm

Did President Obama Restore Science To Its Rightful Place?

In his 2009 inaugural address, President Barack Obama promised to “restore science to its rightful place,” in addition to making the government more transparent and accountable. Millions rallied to his cause. Four years later, how has he done? Unfortunate ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 21 2023 - 9:30am

California Didn't Reduce Brownouts With Solar, It Reduced Them With Less Regulation

In the 1990s, utility regulations promised to do for electricity what it had done for airline travel and telephone calls- reduce costs by 90 percent for consumers. California instead did what government had done to cable television costs; used over-regulat ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 21 2023 - 4:56pm

People Lie On Surveys And When It Comes To Guns, Women And Minorities Want Government To Know The Least

A crippling flaw in much epidemiology is that it takes survey results as truthful and then seeks to correlate that to some benefit or harm. It's why epidemiologists said butter was bad and trans fats were good, until butter was good and trans fats wer ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 26 2023 - 9:40am