Science & Society

Prop 65 Is A California Gimmick That Raises Prices For The Poor

Proposition 65 was a voter referendum that stated if a chemical was correlated to cancer, it needed to have a cancer warning label. Lawyers who were behind the public relations effort to get it passed assured consumers it would not be abused. Yet a few yea ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 13 2025 - 4:42pm

The Sexual Evolution- Gender And Nature May Be More Complex Than You Believe

I have a trans flag flying from my house but I completely understand concerns by women that they're being set back 60 years if someone born a biological man starts setting female swimming or boxing records. Women have their own sports because we turne ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Mar 5 2025 - 3:32pm

What Will Become Of Reality?

For convenience, let’s say it started with Photoshop. That program made it obvious not only that we couldn’t believe our eyes any more, but that photographic evidence could no longer be admissible in court. Socioeconomic implications were even wider, as n ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Mar 8 2025 - 9:11pm

An Earthquake In Science Utopia?

There's no question that the World Wide Web is a much different beast today than it was during the election of 2000.   Yes, it was even then a communication medium but it was primarily a way to sell dog food.   After Bush was inaugurated blogger.com, ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 18 2025 - 8:44am

How Proposition 65 Made Products More Expensive Even Outside California

When the Proposition 65 referendum, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, was being debated, concerns about abuse and high cost were dismissed by the lawyers behind it with the assurance that lawyers wouldn't decide what products ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 7 2025 - 10:19am

U.S. Forest Service Thanks Environmentalists For Getting Out Of The Way

It's taken decades but the U.S. Forest Service is finally being allowed to use science in managing America's natural resources. Instead of environmental activists tying up science and the government by using other government regulations and red t ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 16 2025 - 10:29am

Journalists Are Right To Question The Credibility Of IARC

The International Agency for Research on Cancer got a skeptical look from journalists and the general public after epidemiologists in the UN group declared that sausage is as dangerous as cigarette smoking, plutonium, mustard gas and asbestos.     That doe ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 16 2025 - 1:27pm

Reuters Exposes Another IARC Controversy

The International Agency for Research on Cancer, a  United Nations epidemiological group located in France, has been around since the 1960s but only recently got a skeptical look from journalists and the general publi. Because they declared that sausage is ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 21 2025 - 2:58pm

US Government Wants To End 54 Years Of Subsidized Media

The Trump administration’s drive to slash government spending on everything from the arts to cancer research also includes efforts to carry through on the Republican Party’s long-standing goal of ending federal funding for NPR, the nation’s public radio n ...

Article - The Conversation - May 2 2025 - 2:09pm

Food Babe Learns The Unlisted Controversial Ingredient In Budweiser

Vani Hari, the Food Babe, has demanded answers Self-proclaimed Food Babe, Vani Hari has an online petition as k ing demanding that Anheuser-Busch and Miller Coors, America’s largest beer brands "disclose their full set of ingredients online ...

Article - Norm Benson - May 3 2025 - 10:53am