Science Education & Policy

Friends Of The Earth Hate Clean Energy- And So Does President Obama

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

'Virtual Water' Theory Says Your Cup Of Coffee Requires 140 Liters Of Water

Professor John Anthony Allan from King’s College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies has been named the 2008 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate. Professor Allan pioneered the development of key concepts in the understanding and communication ...

Article - News Staff - May 20 2025 - 3:38pm

European Farmers Ignore Science In Favor Of Superstition- Or So They Want Us To Believe

Next month, the US and Europe would like to make some progress in tearing down trade barriers, an archaic notion left over from the Colonial period in history. (1) Special trade agreements with blocs, like The Hanseatic League of the 12th century, were alw ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 21 2025 - 11:12am

Political Science Is Not A 'Critical Part Of Our National Science Agenda'

Political scientists are in a panic because the US House of Representatives passed a bill which contains a line item eliminating National Science Foundation grants for political scientists. The Senate may vote soon also, though there are a lot more Democra ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 25 2025 - 8:26am

Obama Invented Prediabetes And Kennedy's Wearable Health Monitors Are The Next Evolution

Former Natural Resources Defense Council Attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. didn't get more pro-science by becoming Secretary of Health and Human Services, he instead acts like his beliefs in The Ancient Ways- no cell phones, no vaccines, food scarcity- ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 25 2025 - 10:06pm

Why Do Democrats Want To Get Rid Of The NIH Public Access Policy?

Public access for studies paid for by taxpayer money seems like a no-brainer. There's no reason peer-reviewed journals should get to charge researchers (paid for again by taxpayers) and then have a copyright on the work. Last year the government appr ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 30 2025 - 8:20am

The Publisher's Pushback Against NIH's Public Access And Scholarly Publishing Sustainability

The dying light of the George W. Bush presidency was marked by, among other things, a legislative move to derail recent gains in the federal government's opening of science. In particular, the innocuous sounding “Fair Copyright in Research Works Act” ...

Article - John Willinsky - Jun 30 2025 - 8:33am

The College Major Is A Recent Invention, It May Be Time To Get Rid Of It

Colleges and universities are struggling to stay afloat. The reasons are numerous: declining numbers of college-age students in much of the country, rising tuition at public institutions as state funding shrinks, and a growing skepticism about the value o ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 1 2025 - 4:30am

The Year Is 2028

The year is 2028.  After Congress voted that he need not heed Supreme Court decisions,  Donald J. Trump declared himself king. ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Jul 1 2025 - 12:12pm

The End To Universities Using Graduate Students As Piggy Banks Is Near

In the 1980s, the majority party in Congress saw demography claims that people with college educations made more money than those without.  Universities began to lobby for student loan changes. Many smaller private schools were facing funding crunches and ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 16 2025 - 10:54am