Science & Society

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

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