Science & Society

Coronavirus Has Caused Democrats To Move Back Toward Trust In Science

A year ago, and for this entire century, the nexus of anti-vaccine beliefs and other denial of science has been Democratic states. While places like Mississippi and Alabama had vaccine rates near 100 percent, an infectious disease crisis that began on the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 6 2025 - 11:02am

No Nonsense Nutrition Advice Most Of You Will Ignore In 2009

America is slightly schizophrenic when it comes to weight.   If you open a newspaper you can simultaneously read that the five skinny women left must need counselling and society is to blame for that but anorexia is genetic even though that gene seems to ...

Article - News Staff - May 12 2025 - 8:22am

Remember That '140 Liters Of Water In My Cup Of Coffee' Claim? Here's Why Virtual Water Is Bogus

A few days ago the internet was abuzz with shocking headlines because the gentleman behind 'virtual water', professor John Anthony Allan of King’s College London, got an award from a water conservation group, the Stockholm International Water Ins ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 20 2025 - 3:35pm

Frankenstein Was Not A GMO

The Los Angeles Times got a little Huffington Post-ish in an article July 17th about Oxitec's genetically modified mosquito to control dengue outbreaks in various poor countries- and perhaps even in the Florida Keys. ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 23 2025 - 8:48am

Legal American Owners Don't Create Gun Epidemics, Smuggling By Mexican Drug Cartels Does

Illegal firearm trafficking is inseparable from the illegal drug trade: Weapons are often bought with drug money, can strengthen cartels and can be traded for drugs. ...

Article - The Conversation - May 24 2025 - 4:00am

Is A Ph.D. A Waste Of Time?

The Economist argues, as they would be expected to argue, given their free market leaning, that due to the glut of Ph.D.s and therefore the poor job market (in academia), it is a waste of time.   A Ph.D. who enters the job corporate world for anything exc ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 24 2025 - 7:37pm

The Data: Spain Is The Best Place To Get Hammered This Weekend

If you want to have a good time, visit Spain.  It isn't just the tapas. They have bars. A lot of them.  The average is one bar for every 132 residents. For comparison, the US state with the most bars per capita is North Dakota- one for every 1,620 Nor ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 31 2025 - 8:53am

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim

A stronomy, it seems, finds itself at the mercy of political caprice and economic machinations yet again. The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), once poised to revolutionize observational astronomy from the unparalleled vantage point of Mauna Kea, faces cancel ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 15 2025 - 7:18pm

Lottery Bottle Bill Could Improve Recycling

In the 1980s, there was a conflict raging about recycling. Governments were starting to do it while states that had a 'bottle bill'- a deposit on bottles you got refunded upon return- wanted to keep their success. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 19 2025 - 2:36pm

There Is No Such Thing as a "Nuclear Scientist". There Are Only Physicists

L et’s bury the dangerous, lazy, and politically convenient idea that there exists a distinct species of person called a "nuclear scientist." There is no such thing. There are physicists. Some specialize in nuclear physics, some in astrophysics, ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Jun 21 2025 - 10:13pm