Science & Society

Mother Jones Hates Scientists- And Their Bias Shows

In an effort to keep the pressure on scientists who accept the overwhelming consensus on genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the hard-left political magazine Mother Jones has written another article using emails provided to the organic lobbying organiz ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 13 2021 - 6:37pm

Toxic Campus Culture: A Call To End Orientation Week At Universities

Fear and frustration hang over London, Ont., where many people are discussing four formal allegations of sexual violence reported to Western University and sharing unconfirmed rumours about wider sexual assaults. Members of the Western community say they ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 19 2021 - 11:02am

Known Flaws In Ivermectin Meta-Analyses Are Bad News For Environmental Activists, Who Have Exploited These For Years

If a group of astrologers all write papers endorsing astrology and then another astrologer comes along and does a meta-analysis of those, they can conclude authoritatively that astrology works. As a smart reader, you know it's nonsense, but if you are ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 24 2021 - 11:59am

Two Wrong Meta-Analyses Don't Make A Right

Want to find the flaws in a study? Ask a competitor, just like you would ask a competitor about the flaws in an iPhone or any other product. And if you really want to see griping about the flaws in a study, ask someone who happens to believe just the oppos ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 27 2021 - 11:45am

'Silent Earth' Review: Scientists Have Been Bought Off, Organic Can Feed Everyone- It's Retro Creepy In 2021

To most people, food production, home ownership, and energy don't have much in common, but in the hands of 'science is a corporate conspiracy' theorist Dave Goulson, humans are ruining the planet. The common cultural cancer underpinning of o ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 30 2021 - 1:44pm

In 18 Years, Pumpkin Spice Knocked Out Apple As The Flavor Of Fall

In the fall of 2003, Starbucks tested a new latte in two cities and autumn hasn't been the same since. The pumpkin spice craze was born.  How did it all happen? We can thank free market economics. The company already had Christmas locked up with cups ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 1 2021 - 9:29am

60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1952

Wilson Tucker’s 1952 The Long Loud Silence is The Road of the 1950’s. It’s a pure survival story, one about the complete deterioration of society into a vicious, gritty state of no-holds-barred struggle after a nuclear and biological holocaust. Unlike many ...

Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:24pm

60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1947

The End of the World as Farce Our road to The Road begins in 1947, with Ward Moore's Greener Than You Think, an apocalyptic comic satire that just cries out for a movie adaptation by Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The End of the World as Farce ...

Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:42pm

60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1948

Written two years after the catastrophic destruction of World War II ended with the initiation of the nuclear age, Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence is a graphically violent, sexually explicit, and surrealistic expression of Huxley’s bitter disappointme ...

Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:42pm

60 Years Of End Of The World Sci-Fi: 1949

With 1949, we arrive at one of the big classics in the post-apocalyptic genre. George Stewart’s Earth Abides is epic in both scope and ambition, a bittersweet story that captures the immense scale on which nature operates, and which portrays the scientific ...

Article - Michael White - Oct 13 2021 - 12:43pm