Other Science News

Reprinted by permission of McGill University Office for Science and Society. ### 

Summer is upon us. While you're firing up your grills, rest assured that the ACSH staff will remain diligently working so that you don't need to worry about IARC telling you that a single hot dog will give you cancer.

Being the richest person in the world certainly does not guarantee being the most informed. Consider Jeff Bezos.

Science is an imperfect pursuit at its core. It advances in stops and starts, and only with time and trials do beliefs morph into models and then facts.

When I was a kid, Bill Nye the Science Guy was a thing. I never watched his show (as I was too busy keeping up with Ren & Stimpy), but he seemed fun enough. If I could go back in time, I'd probably watch.

By Tom Blees

It is a widely held belief that journals favor studies with positive findings, so what are authors to do when their conclusions are not “statistically significant?”  They use word craft to spin their report of nothing into something.

For Americans, April 15 is Tax Day. For some others around the world, April 15 is a day to block traffic and commit crimes. It’s for the environment, you see.

The Chinese media recently reported on a neurosurgeon successfully performing “brain surgery” robotically from a distance of 3000 kilometers.

Spring officially has sprung. Flowers are blooming, birds are chirping, and the anti-vaxxers are getting restless. That's why we exist. So, here are some of the media mentions we received and other outreach we performed in recent weeks: