Science & Society

Does Bias Hold Women Back In Academia?

Meg Urry was on the senior scientific staff at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which runs the Hubble Space Telescope for NASA. That's no surprise to people outside the government-funded research world, women have been doing quality scie ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 20 2013 - 11:07pm

I Got A Letter From The White House...

Because I signed a petition asking for increased open access of studies, I got an email from White House Science Czar Dr. John Holdren today- don't get excited, after all of the mean things I have said about him he is not suddenly writing me personall ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 25 2013 - 2:44pm

Can You Give Kids A Choice And Still Have Healthy School Lunches?

In January of 2012, the United States Department of Agriculture passed a series of regulations designed to make school lunches more nutritious, which included requiring schools to increase whole grain foods and forcing students to select either a fruit or ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 26 2013 - 10:21pm

Pope Benedict XVI: Thanks For Supporting Science

As American culture becomes more polarized, with various constituencies aligning themselves on left-right graphs, religious groups are not going to win with a subset of people, even among rational scientists who should be immune from motivated reasoning. I ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 27 2013 - 3:44pm

Michael Shermer, Chris Mooney and Mark Lynas Discuss Science Left Behind

On TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin, yesterday's topic was "The Anti-Science Left" and it starts off with a quote from my book with Dr. Alex Berezow, called "Science Left Behind", about the feel-good fallacies that anti-scie ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 28 2013 - 6:52pm

"Move Along, Nothing To See Here"

I recently read an opinion piece that suggests that concerns about human population growth are grossly overstated and that nothing of consequence is going to occur. Consequently, no serious demographer believes that human population growth resembles cancer ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Mar 7 2013 - 9:02pm

Abortion As Violence Against Women

Scientists met this week in New York to discuss recent scientific evidence regarding abortion as a form of growing violence against women and girls. Indiscriminate practice of abortion is correlated with coercion, a history of sexual abuse, violence durin ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2013 - 8:57pm

Social Status Not Linked To Longer Life

People with more money may live longer, if not better, than poor people but attempts to link high socioeconomic status to better health and lower mortality have been ineffective because it's unclear whether the association has more to do with access ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2013 - 1:56pm

Organized Religion In America Continues Its Decline- 20 Percent Have No Preference

As Roman Catholics cardinals conclave to pick a new Pope, they should be thinking about a problem that is becoming more apparent- in the developed world, all organized religion continues to decline. Religious affiliation in the US only began to be tracked ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2013 - 9:44am

'Daughter Aversion' Linked To Contraception Use In Nepal

Poverty and under-education dampen contraception use in Nepal but another factor may be more intractable: Deeply held cultural preferences for sons over daughters. The cross-sectional study was based on data from the 2011 Nepal Demographic and Health Surv ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 14 2013 - 4:38pm