Science Education & Policy

The Upside To AI And Young Creativity

Artificial Intelligence- AI- isn't really AI at all, which may be why it has been so disappointing to companies that aren't trying to sell you a new leaf blower. Instead of doing something practical, like the dishes or laundry so you have more ti ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 31 2024 - 1:35pm

EPA Gives Personal Information On Farmers To Environmental Activists

The Environmental Protection Agency has always been a political beast- it is political appointees accountable to whatever administration is in power, not the electorate. President Richard Nixon created it, that should tell you something. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 18 2024 - 12:00pm

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 18 2024 - 6:14pm

Fentanyl Issue- Blaming Big Pharma Or Foreign Crime Rings Tells Us How You Vote

During last evening's Republican National Convention, speakers repeatedly invoked the fentanyl crisis and blamed lax border control and unchecked illegal immigration. Democrats, on the other hand, blame Big Pharma, and argue corporate exploitation of ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 19 2024 - 1:33pm

Manga And Relativity- Otaku Only Or Science For Everyone?

The National Science Foundation and various other government groups with more funding than knowledge of the public wastes billions of dollars on STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) outreach, using the strange mentality that smart kids who ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 20 2024 - 9:39am

FDA Inspections, Compliance, Enforcement, and Criminal Investigations Warns 23andMe

Google money magic can only take you so far with the federal government.  23andMe, the highest profile genetic testing company, co-founded by Anne Wojcicki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, has gotten a warning letter from the FDA. The problem? They ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 29 2024 - 8:28am

End US Nationalism And Let Foreign-Born PhDs Stay

In the 1990s, the US administration decided the best way to protect wages for American workers was by making it very difficult for those pesky foreign science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) graduates living here to get work visas. Student visas ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 13 2024 - 9:34am

Minnesota Trial Lawyers Want To Ban Neonics- Here Is Why That Is A Mistake

Minnesota is having a challenging year, so challenging they are approaching California as the wackiest state, according to other states. They have a chronic anti-Semitism problem, including a member of Congress who may soon have to register as a foreign na ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 20 2024 - 3:20pm

My Comment To EPA Recommending Tyrone Hayes Not Be Admitted To The FIFRA SAP

Comments opened on the recent EPA nominations to serve on the Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) established under section 25(d) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), since three member terms will expire during the next year. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 17 2024 - 4:26pm

False Argument For U.S. Solar Subsidies: That It Prevents Pollution Deaths

Solar energy, with tens of billions in subsidies to keep it afloat, now employs more people than the fossil fuel alternative it is irrationally pitted against in media- coal.  Solar panels are fine for elites, just like organic food is- but like with organ ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 10 2025 - 4:03pm