Dr. Gerard Fealy, from the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems at University College Dublin, looked at nursing portrayals on YouTube videos and did not like what he found; fully 40 percent of the most popular ones portrayed nurses as educated, smart and technically skilled. Nurses were shown as a distinct professional group working [...]
read moreIs psychology a science? Increasingly, the respect of science (and scientists) by the public has been dropping and a part of that reason is because the line of what science is has become fuzzy. If economics calls itself science, well, the public knows they don't know what they are talking about, so maybe it applies to climate science too. Is sociology science? What about...
read moreHow many times have you seen a commercial for some medication to alleviate some pesky condition, and the bulk of the ad spot is someone droning on about all of the side effects?And what's up with that print at the bottom that always says, "See our ad in GOLF magazine"? GOLF magazine must have the sickest readers on planet Earth. And then those print ads are even scarier than TV...
read morePsychologist Roel Verheul and Psychiatrist John Livesley have resigned from the DSM-5 Personality Disorders Work Group, citing "major concerns about the Work Group's mode of working" and lack of a "coherent, evidence-based classification that would help to advance the field and facilitate patient care."DSM stands for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.They explained in an...
read moreWhile gullible anti-science progressives are against genetically modified foods because they don't understand what 'natural' means, it isn't just advocacy groups who need new things to fundraise about that are up in arms, it is also growers themselves.Okanagan Specialty Fruits has created an apple that doesn't get brownish so fast after you cut into it. That's it. Terrific, right?The...
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