Science & Society

Get Radical- And Maybe Be A Better Scientist

In an open science community like Science 2.0, people will feel like they can just sign up and babble about anything and if you protest that what they are doing is not really science (wormholes, brand new theory of everything, social psychology, etc.), the ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 10 2024 - 2:31pm

The Sublime Idiocracy Of the 2024 Drone Panic. 99.99% Chance They Are Just Planes And Stars.

T he "drone panic" of 2024 easily claims the title of the most absurd astronomy and physics-related story of the year. At its core, 99.99% of this so-called crisis boils down to people mistaking planes for something extraordinary. The rest? It&# ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 14 2024 - 10:33am

Science Left Behind 2014: The Anti-Vaccination Update

Science Left Behind, a book I co-authored in 2012 with Dr. Alex Berezow, covered the ways that anti-science beliefs had become mainstream among political progressives in the United States.  It addressed dozens of topics but the three biggest ones denied b ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 19 2024 - 10:40am

Sexist Weather And Hermaphroditic Frogs: The Problem Of Faux Peer Review

In today's Wall Street Journal, I have an article discussing recent problems in peer review. ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 9 2025 - 12:13am

PNAS Issues Expression Of Concern About Facebook Experiment Study

PNAS has issued an expression of concern about a study it published where Facebook attempted to manipulate the emotions of members by controlling their news feed (10.1073/ pnas.1320040111). But they only bothered to notice and say anything after the outra ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jan 9 2025 - 12:14am