Science & Society
- Support Science, Condemn Golden Rice Eco-Terrorism
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Humanitarian research at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is geared toward various projects, among them saving millions of children from death and blindness due to Vitamin A deficiency. ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Feb 3 2020 - 6:17pm
- Flight Shaming Gets Media Attention But It Isn't Reducing Flying
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Despite flying being the single fastest way to grow our individual carbon footprint, people still want to fly. Passenger numbers even grew by 3.3% globally last year alone. The hype around “ Flygskam ” – a global movement championed by climate activist Gr ...
Article - The Conversation - Feb 4 2020 - 3:00pm
- What Science To Trust In The Age Of The Internet.
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T he number one pitfall of reporting on science is to take a single work, or single report and treat it as if it is proven as fact already. In truth, real science knowledge is that which has stood the test of time. That is not really exciting for report ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Feb 4 2020 - 5:57pm
- Screening For Prostate Cancer At Embryogenesis And California Trees As Carcinogens
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In California, we have warning labels on trees, because they will give us cancer. And that is not even the strangest of California's warnings about nearly 1,000 chemicals on hundreds of thousands of products. We call it "leadership" to put w ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 10 2020 - 7:56pm
- Joe Mercola's Maze Of Vaccine Denying Organizations
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The anti-vaccine movement tries to portray itself as scrappy grassroots outsiders standing up to Big Pharma and Big Government, but it's nothing of the kind, finds a recent Washington Post exposé. The National Vaccine Information Center, which claims ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 11 2020 - 10:31am
- Misinformation And Disinformation Are Diseases And Both Social Media And Journalism Are Vectors
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A recent paper finds that vaccine disinformation is common on social media while a few years ago I had employees watch food documentaries on Netflix and write about their impression and the results in both cases are startling for people who don't real ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 17 2020 - 1:57pm
- If You Want People To Read Your Science, Get Them To Read You- By Making Your Stories Personal
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A new paper says scientists can make their work more appealing to the public by making it more personal. I learned of it through a paid university PIO but few scientists will see the irony in that. I certainly agree with the point. I have been part of two ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 21 2020 - 10:06am
- Magic Rocks: Wellness Approach Cures Brain Cancer- If You Never Had Brain Cancer
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23-year-old "wellness" guru Belle Gibson claimed in spring 2013 to have cured her terminal brain cancer using her diet. She quickly became Australia's version of Vani Hari, "The Food Babe", so popular with the same demographic li ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 24 2020 - 2:46pm
- Zicam And Other Homeopathy, Supplements; 51% Of Parents Say They Give Them To Kids Though They Know They Don't Work
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Thanks to social media, advice on how to prevent a cold is everywhere and 51 percent of parents taking the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health admit to believing in folklore and homeopathy even though 99 percent of ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 24 2020 - 2:49pm
- Katherine Johnson’s Story Is A Reminder Societal Progress Is Not Inevitable.
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K atherine Johnson, a Mathematician doing a job known as being a “computer” for NASA in the movie “Hidden Figures” died today at the age of 101. She started out at a time where being such a human computer was looked about as lowly clerical work fit for w ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Feb 24 2020 - 6:21pm