Science Education & Policy
- Runaway Technology: What To Do?
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Image credit: Depositphotos In 2025 it’s hard to argue that social media are not to blame for much antisocial and suicidal behavior among preteens and teens (e.g., Orben and Matias 2025). The harms of online bullying, deepfake nudes, and fringe conspiraci ...
Article - Fred Phillips - Apr 30 2025 - 3:24pm
- California Didn't Reduce Brownouts With Solar, It Reduced Them With Less Regulation
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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 - May 6 2025 - 10:02am
- New York Is Blaming Washington DC For Its Coronavirus Problem
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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 - May 6 2025 - 10:50am
- COVID-19 Lockdown Fallout: We May Have Failed School Kids
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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 - May 6 2025 - 11:00am
- San Francisco Sides With EWG In Cell Phone Warning Label Lawsuit
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Everyone should have a home where they feel comfortable. If you want to carry a six-shooter on the street, move to Kennesaw, Georgia, outside Atlanta- Gun Town, USA (bonus: only 4 gun murders in 30 years, so you will be safe) (1) and if you like to ban eve ...
Article - Hank Campbell - May 8 2025 - 9:28am
- Friends Of The Earth Hate Clean Energy- And So Does President Obama
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Nuclear power is not an environmental issue. There is just no way to spin that it is. What started off with activists being anti-nuclear weapon has morphed into irrational, anti-science stances against all energy- even reactors that simply cannot have a m ...
Article - Hank Campbell - May 19 2025 - 9:27am