EnvironmentAugust 5, 2013
Cancer Establishment Admits We’re Getting Overtested and Overtreated
I’ve complained in previous columns about excessive medical testing, which leads to unnecessary treatment and drives up health care costs.
Stories by John Horgan
John Horgan, who has written for Scientific American since 1986, comments on science on his free online journal Cross-Check. He has also posted his books Mind-Body Problems and My Quantum Experiment online. Horgan teaches at Stevens Institute of Technology.
EnvironmentAugust 5, 2013
Cancer Establishment Admits We're Getting Overtested and Overtreated
August 2, 2013
Survey of Earliest Human Settlements Undermines Claim that War Has Deep Evolutionary Roots
My last two posts discuss two new studies that contradict the Deep Roots Theory of War, which holds that war is ancient and innate. One study concludes that modern-day mobile foragers (also called nomadic hunter gatherers) are far less warlike than Deep Rooters contend.
July 24, 2013
New Study of Prehistoric Skeletons Undermines Claim That War Has Deep Evolutionary Roots*
When did war begin? Does war have deep roots, or is it a modern invention? A new analysis of ancient human remains by anthropologists Jonathan Haas and Matthew Piscitelli of Chicago’s Field Museum provides strong evidence for the latter view.
EvolutionJuly 24, 2013
New Study of Prehistoric Skeletons Undermines Claim that War Has Deep Evolutionary Roots
EvolutionJuly 18, 2013
New Study of Foragers Undermines Claim That War Has Deep Evolutionary Roots
HealthJuly 8, 2013
Beyond Big Brother: SANE, Security Attained through Neural Engineering
The SciencesJuly 1, 2013
Will "Persistent Surveillance" Turn U.S. into a Panopticon?
CultureJune 20, 2013
Why Study Humanities? What I Tell Engineering Freshmen
Mind & BrainJune 15, 2013
A Bloomsday Appreciation of Ulysses by James Joyce, Greatest Mind-Scientist Ever
EnvironmentJune 10, 2013
50 Years Later, JFK "Peace Speech" Still Inspires-and Has Been Scientifically Validated!
The SciencesJune 7, 2013
U.S. Never Really Ended Creepy "Total Information Awareness" Program*
EnvironmentJune 6, 2013
Dave Farber, Internet's "Grandfather," Seeks to Cut Through Fog of Cyberwar
EvolutionJune 1, 2013
Can Neuroscience Cure People of Faith in God? What about Faith in Neuroscience?
EvolutionMay 24, 2013
Barack Obama Should Call for End of All War, Not Just War on Terror
HealthMay 22, 2013
Why You Should Care about Pentagon Funding of Obama's BRAIN Initiative
EvolutionMay 16, 2013
Should Research on Race and IQ Be Banned?*
EvolutionMay 10, 2013
Why Buddha Isn't Dead-and Psychology Still Isn't Really a Science
HealthMay 7, 2013
Bipolar Writer Comments on Debate Over "Crisis in Psychiatry"
HealthMay 4, 2013
Psychiatry in Crisis! Mental Health Director Rejects Psychiatric "Bible" and Replaces With Nothing
EnvironmentMay 1, 2013
Author of The Physics of Wall Street Ponders Strings, Black Swans and a Final Theory of Finance
EnvironmentApril 24, 2013
We Need a New Just-War Theory, Which Aims to End War Forever
HealthApril 19, 2013
How Can We Condemn Boston Murders But Excuse U.S. Bombing of Civilians?
EvolutionApril 15, 2013
Cantankerous Historian of Science Questions Whether Science Can Achieve "Truth"