Science Education & Policy

Academic Patents Mean Money, And That Means An Engineering Department

If a school doesn't have a strong sports program, universities that have seen faculty and administrative salaries skyrocket have used the unlimited student loan debt program created in the late 1980s to fund growth. Yet a few years prior to that, a sc ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 16 2023 - 12:31pm

Enough: Toward A Sustainable Economics

We're no longer surprised that so many people bow down to the Invisible Hand of economics, worshipping its messenger coins and notes, and attending its oracles, the Wall Street analysts. Adam Smith, the 18th-century originator of the invisible hand m ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Aug 25 2023 - 3:10pm

Subsidized Housing Makes Inequality Worse

With rampant inflation, an economy whose only baffling bragging right is that it gained back 80 percent of the jobs lost since the Biden administration began, and mortgage rates increasing the most since Jimmy Carter was president, calls are on to subsidiz ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 30 2023 - 10:56am

Anti-GMO Beliefs Are Held By People With Lower Education

A YouGov poll found that anti-GMO beliefs are a sign of being les s educated. It is something the science community has always known but organic industry trade groups such as Organic Consumers Association, U.S. Right To Know, and SourceWatch try to claim t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 11 2023 - 10:58am

COVID-19 Lockdown Fallout: We May Have Failed School Kids

When a pandemic is happening in real time, it's only possible to know in hindsight what was a successful mitigation strategy, what was hype to help a presidential candidate, or even what was suppressed for geopolitical interests. There is no question ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 13 2023 - 11:45am