It’s easy to blame insurance companies, or greedy hospitals, or greedy doctors for the increase in health care costs – but few blame the courts. And there is a lot of blame to lay. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the runaway leader in America for being overturned by the Supreme Court. If there is a goofy position, they will adopt it. Add that to the notion that people...
read moreSometimes Science 2.0 has to swim against the stream. The stream, in this case, has been the long-standing irrational belief that America 'needs' more scientists. read...
read moreIt's no secret that an alarming number of left-wing people hate science - and scientists. But why do far-left anarchists really hate science, enough to get violent about it? And why don't the right do anything more than be Freedom of Information Act pests?Sure, more people on the right than on the left deny evolution, but they aren't shooting evolutionary biologists, we just have to be...
read moreSocial Psychologist Dave Nussbaum at the University of Chicago is one of the good guys; in the criticisms heaped on social psychology this year, the one silver lining is that it has been insiders tripping up the frauds like Diederik Stapel and Dirk...
read moreA small parasitic crustacean blood feeder that infests certain fish that inhabit the coral reefs of the shallow eastern Caribbean is the absolute perfect species to name for a pleasant Jamaican stoner - and so it came to pass. The little critter has been designated Gnathia marleyi. read...
read more