Science & Society

Suicide Nation: What's Behind It?

Suicide rates in the U.S. have increased nearly 30 percent in less than 20 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported June 7. These mind-numbing statistics were released the same week two very famous, successful and beloved people comm ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 6 2018 - 12:07am

American Indian Kennewick man isn’t related to Clovis boy? Recombinant DNA’s tricks and Ancestry’s quirks. New UPDATE

Deep ancestry by DNA is not as straight forward as a paternity test.  Simplistic assumptions can lead to grave misunderstandings which are not helped by how DNA test are marketed.  I had my DNA tested by Ancestry.com and I am waiting for results from Natio ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 24 2018 - 5:24pm

The Weight Loss Industry Is Full Of Woo

There is talk in America of adding even more nutrition information to food labels, but as long as entire industries are exempt from evidence-based claims, it won't do much good. It will still be woo central in the supplement, holistic, and weight-loss ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2018 - 2:12pm

Multiple Barriers To Treatment For Opioid Users

In 2016, more than 42,000 Americans died of an opioid-related overdose, which is alarming- but most of those deaths were not accidents by pain patients or suicides, they were recreational drug users. There are numerous obstacles to making meaningful progre ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2018 - 12:55pm

Transphobia Rife in A Popular Style: Crunchyroll ’s Anime Mistranslations, and the Otoko-no-ko Trap

C runchyroll, Funimation and others have perpetuated the miseducation, and knowingly or unknowingly promoted anti LGBT bigotry in a generation of geeks in the western world.  Once people are miseducated it is really hard to reeducate them in the right way ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jul 20 2018 - 11:51am

For The Love Of The Internet, Stop Sharing Bullshit

There is very little I love more than the world wide web. No, seriously, I mean it. Internet has changed my life more than any other "thing" around, and it has provided me with an enormous wealth- information, knowledge, simplification of otherwi ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Jul 27 2018 - 4:47am

Illinois Education Association Proving Janus Right? Crooked Union Elections... A BIG MESS.

T he Illinois Education Association is a state level component of the National Education Association. As one of the largest teachers unions in the country it may represent your college professors and your college teachers. The actions of unions in the pas ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Aug 27 2018 - 3:12pm

HBO No: John Oliver's Awkward Support For The Anti-Vaccine Community

On Sunday evening, John Oliver of HBO's "Last Week Tonight" took a break from talking about Paul Manafort's clothing to talk about public trust in science. Well, sort of. Really, he claimed he wanted to expose "astroturf" gro ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Aug 14 2018 - 1:41pm

Transsexual Dilation Time, One Scientist Experience

Dilation, the most misunderstood aspect of transsexual life.  Common misconceptions and vicious lies say that it is to keep open an oozing bleeding wound that will scab over and heal up like a cut without dilation.    NO.  It is painful ….it can be.  It i ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Sep 2 2018 - 4:47pm

UK Deserves A Right To Housing- And Living Alone

The worst effects of the UK’s housing crisis include rising levels of homelessness, and growing numbers of people being housed in unsafe or overcrowded conditions. According to the charity Crisis, 59,890 households were accepted as homeless in England in ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 3 2018 - 10:15pm