Apparently Everyone Now Agrees Science Is Badly Broken
Research is afflicted with pervasive confirmation bias that is massively yielding false positives
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Don't Blame Food Companies for What You Feed Your Kids
Parents feed babies candy, soda, and chips. What does this have to do with the industry?
5 Quick Facts About the Gender Pay Gap
Do women still earn just 79 percent of every dollar men make? A look at what's really going on with the gender wage gap
Here's a Federal Program That Actually Does Prevent Foodborne Illnesses
It's based on research and sharing information, not on more regulations.
Bill Gates Expects an 'Energy Miracle' in Next 15 Years
"World will discover a clean energy breakthrough that will save our planet and power our world."
Is Social Science Politically Biased?, Asks Michael Shermer in Scientific American
Surely as scientists, liberals are able to maintain their dispassionate objectivity
USDA School Lunch Problems Continue
New research paints a rosy picture of the program. But is the picture telling the whole story?
Stunning Rejection of Scientific Values of Transparency and Skepticism at New England Journal of Medicine
Outside researchers might "even use the data to try to disprove what the original investigators had posited."
Government Roadblock: Feds Should Just Get Out of the Way of Self-Driving Vehicles
"All government needs to do for the next transportation revolution [is to] get out of the road."
Biomedical Study Reproducibility Scandalously Bad, Evidence for "Free Will," and Robot Rebellion by 2055
A scitech research and policy round up for January 5, 2016
A War on Climate Change?
We are supposed trust government technocrats - what could possibly go wrong?
Fixing Liberal Bias Will Improve Academic Research
Trying to turn back the herd of independent minds.
People Who Watch Porn Hold More Feminist Views
Study shows greater support for gender equality among men and women who watch adult films.
Meet the Man Helping Police Officers Get Away with Shootings
A psychology professor testifies that there's pretty much always a good reason.
Most Preclinical Life Science Research Is Irreproducible Bunk
$28 billion in research funding wasted every year.
Uncle Sam's Expanded Marijuana Menu
A new list of offerings suggests the government's cannabis monopoly is suddenly aiming to please.
Socially Engineering Food Choices Doesn't Work
To say that Los Angeles merely failed would be putting it mildly.
More Efficient Photosynthesis Transferred From Corn Into Rice: Could Boost Yields 50 Percent
Malthusian doomsters foiled again.
'Corporate Money' Leads to Life-Saving Medical Discoveries
Activists obsessed with "conflict of interest" in science make life more difficult for doctors, and for patients who want cures.
Report: Food Freedom Under Attack
A new Institute for Justice report on food freedom, which I co-authored, makes clear that your right to grow, raise, produce, buy, sell, share, cook, eat, and drink the foods you want is under attack.
More Incoming College Students Are Looking at Price Tags
Cost is becoming an increasingly important factor when teenagers pick colleges.
Sanjay Gupta Pushes Even Further in Support of Medical Marijuana
CNN to air new documentary about pot's medicinal value
Charlotte Figi's Story Brings Families to Colorado for Her Medical Marijuana Strain
Parents relocating to try to get treatment for children's seizures
Today's Child Injury Panic: Shopping Carts
Study finds 66 kids treated every day due to cart-related injuries
Researchers Find Brain Activity that Leads to Cocaine Addiction
Could be useful in creating new anti-addiction medication
Study Suggests Fast Food Not Source of Childhood Obesity Problem
It's just one part of an overall unhealthy diet, something we all already knew.
More Evidence Marijuana Helps Fight PTSD
Nothing definitive but could be a boon to veterans
Pediatrics Group Wants Nationwide Ban on Raw Milk
Warn pregnant women and children not to drink it
Drug Designed to Treat Epilepsy May Also Block HIV
Researchers want to try it on people
Nobel-Prize Winning Biologist to Boycott Top Journals
Says they're distorting the scientific process
European Regulators Say Aspartame Sugar Substitute Is Safe
Now if they can just get EU to gasp GMO foods better
Researchers Investigate Ways to Determine Marijuana Contamination
As the drug sees more and more legal and medical use
Study of 11,000 Children Shows No Correlation Between Video Games and Bad Behavior
Or television, either
