Science & Society
- Pope Francis: The Most Scientific Pope Ever
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Pope Francis can claim many firsts; he is the first non-European Pope since 741 AD, the first from the Americas and the first from the Southern Hemisphere. Given his nuanced positions on science issues like climate change and agriculture, some might also c ...
Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 15 2024 - 6:11am
- Spurious Correlations: Abortion Laws May Lead To More Zika Microcephaly
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ThinkProgress has found a way to use the tragedy of the Zika outbreak to advance their political agenda. America is one of two developed countries that allow abortion on demand at any stage for any reason (Canada is the other one) and the lack of a nation ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 3 2024 - 10:01am
- The Victorian Era Got Juvenile Crime Right
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To modern cultural sensibilities, "Victorian" means 'repressed' because it seemed overly formal to people that want to wear flip-flops into the office, yet they clearly got some things right.(1) The name derives from the reign of Queen ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 15 2024 - 10:21am
- Environmental Health Trust Now Claims 5G Cell Phones Kill Trees
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Prior to 2021, if you found an anti-vaxxer, it was also going to be someone who bought organic food and thought cell phones cause cancer. While some kooky Republicans have taken over for some of the wacky left-wing people that deny vaccines, organic food a ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 15 2024 - 2:02pm
- If A Weedkiller Turned You Gay, We'd Like To Interview You
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a lawyer who leveraged a name that was essentially beatified by Democrats into a lucrative career trying to promote corporate conspiracies about cell phones (cancer!), GMOs (cancer!) and vaccines(everything else!) and he had some s ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 15 2024 - 2:31pm
- Medical Education And Sneetches With Stars
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Proper clinical research exposure in medical school is a somewhat modern invention. Prior to changes implemented by Harvard Medical School in the 19th century, medicine was more application-focused, but gradually medical schools began to expose students t ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 16 2024 - 5:20pm
- This Earth Day, Thank A Chemist
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Earth Day is fast approaching and, let's face it, if you celebrate Earth Day you probably hate science. And you really hate chemists. But there has never been a reason for it, it is simply modern chemophobia. If you ask an environmentalist if they s ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 18 2024 - 9:17am
- Ecomodernist Manifesto- Environmentalism For The 21st Century
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When a sustainability advocate leaves the intellectual playground of academia and starts trying to really get things done related to climate and energy, it is easy to become disillusioned. Not because of corporations, they actually did what was expected an ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 22 2024 - 9:23am
- The 2014 Food Revolution Promises To Save You From Science
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Food is interesting to me. It's essential, of course, but it's also a lot of cutting-edge science that people don't see. It's hard to imagine now that when I was a kid, Prof. Paul Ehrlich (and then later our current science czar, Dr. Jo ...
Article - Hank Campbell - May 2 2024 - 9:49am
- Norm Borlaug Created The Green Revolution- And Pro-Science Groups Like CAST Took It From There
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YDr. Norm Borlaug, Nobel Laureate and "Father of the Green Revolution" was obviously a big believer in advancing an evidence-based, pro-science approach to food, He saw the need for debunking the myths that a generation of environmental groups b ...
Article - Hank Campbell - May 2 2024 - 10:30am