Breda: Carcinogens in Beauty Products

Breda: Carcinogens in Beauty Products

New member Isabella Breda (@BredaIsabella) wrote a story for the Seattle Times on a new bill being considered in the Washington state legislature that would ban cancer-causing ingredients in makeup and hair products. She discusses some of the research that is...
Hu: Political Extremists Vs. Public Health

Hu: Political Extremists Vs. Public Health

In a feature for High Country News, Jane C. Hu (@jane_c_hu) writes about how extremists have mobilized against public health officials across the American West during the COVID-19 pandemic. Officials and their families have received personal threats, and extremists’...

Putting “science” higher in public debate…

NSWA and ScienceOnlineSeattle and FOSEP have partnered with sciencedebate.org to ask science questions of the candidates for governor in Washington state. Candidate Jay Inslee submitted answers to the questions recently, and you can read those here. We remain hopeful...

Boyle: It’s All Politics

Conservatives are increasingly skeptical about science, reports Alan Boyle. (Paradoxically, he says, they are not likely to believe the results of the American Sociological Review study.) Boyle is the msnbc.com science editor and an official NSWA “friend of the...