Andrew ShockeyColumnist Archives

Shockingly Simple: Texas’ rewriting of history shows ignorance, misguidance

By Andrew Shockey
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April 29, 2012

Shockingly Simple: Moderate drinking offers diverse risks and benefits

By Andrew Shockey
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April 26, 2012

Shockingly Simple: Decline in trust of science among conservatives unfortunate

By Andrew Shockey
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April 17, 2012

Shockingly Simple: Kenya must be watchful of corruption, avoid oil curse

By Andrew Shockey
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April 3, 2012

Shockingly Simple: Facebook exacerbates self-interest, reduces meaningful interaction

By Andrew Shockey
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March 27, 2012

Obamacare protects consumers from insurance companies, needs to go further

By Andrew Shockey
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March 20, 2012

Shockingly Simple: Study finds spanking can have long-term side effects

By Andrew Shockey
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March 15, 2012

Shockingly Simple: Experiments suggest the wealthy are more likely to cheat

By Andrew Shockey
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March 6, 2012

Shockingly Simple: Pfizer should pay up following recent birth control debacle

By Andrew Shockey
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February 28, 2012

Shockingly Simple: Reform needed to protect digital legacies of deceased

By Andrew Shockey
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February 26, 2012

Shockingly Simple: Study finds men selfless for selfish, delusional reasons

By Andrew Shockey
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February 12, 2012

Shockingly Simple: Playgrounded

By Andrew Shockey
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February 9, 2012

Shockingly Simple: Working in groups could be hazardous for IQ

By Andrew Shockey
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February 2, 2012

Shockingly Simple: GOP playing politics with Obama and Keystone pipeline

By Andrew Shockey
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January 23, 2012

Shockingly Simple: History channel ratings soar as historical content plummets

By Andrew Shockey
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January 20, 2012

Shockingly Simple: Faulty memory falsely imprisons innocent man for 30 years

By Andrew Shockey
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November 30, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Government funding for scientific research should not be cut

By Andrew Shockey
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November 22, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Road construction does not resolve traffic problems

By Andrew Shockey
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November 16, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Patients and doctors to blame for unnecessary medical bills

By Andrew Shockey
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November 9, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Wrongful birth cases protect against medical mistakes

By Andrew Shockey
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November 1, 2011

Shockingly Simple: STEM graduates must learn to live sans science

By Andrew Shockey
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October 24, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Regulated organ market actually a feasible idea

By Andrew Shockey
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October 17, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Death of laureate highlights need for Nobel changes

By Andrew Shockey
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October 10, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Italian seismologists are unjustly accused of manslaughter

By Andrew Shockey
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October 1, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Male birth control would allow shared risks

By Andrew Shockey
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September 26, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Perry and Merck: Doing the right thing for the wrong reason

By Andrew Shockey
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September 20, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Frankenburgers could save energy and the environment

By Andrew Shockey
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September 12, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Blaming rape victims makes the world less just

By Andrew Shockey
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August 29, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Grounded space shuttle costs jobs and national identity

By Andrew Shockey
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August 24, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Unconventional testing could prepare students for real world

By Andrew Shockey
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May 4, 2011

Shockingly Simple: International Energy Agency reports peak oil has occurred

By Andrew Shockey
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April 28, 2011

Shockingly simple: Antibiotics for animals unnecessary and potentially harmful

By Andrew Shockey
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April 12, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Two parties, one biodegradable cup

By Andrew Shockey
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April 5, 2011

Shockingly Simple: It’s not corn’s fault you’re fat, overeating is the problem

By Andrew Shockey
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April 2, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Students should be wary of self-deception, Cramster

By Andrew Shockey
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March 22, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Conservative media, Wisconsin’s Republicans are anti-intellectual

By Andrew Shockey
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March 14, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Republicans cannot balance budget by cutting NPR

By Andrew Shockey
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March 10, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Embryonic Stem cell research threatened by uncertainty

By Andrew Shockey
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March 2, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Young earth creationists should have never left the ark

By Andrew Shockey
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February 23, 2011

Shockingly Simple: South Dakota abortion bill unnecessary, possibly dangerous

By Andrew Shockey
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February 16, 2011

Shockingly Simple: O’Reilly doesn’t understand science – you can’t explain that

By Andrew Shockey
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February 9, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Science teacher leaves his mark on former student

By Andrew Shockey
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February 3, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Our national gun-control laws are full of bullet holes

By Andrew Shockey
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January 27, 2011

Shocking Simple: Journalists are lazy reseachers, animals die all the time

By Andrew Shockey
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January 20, 2011

Shockingly Simple: Introductory biology misses the whole point of education

By Andrew Shockey
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December 5, 2010

Shockingly Simple: To readers: Criticism only helps when it makes sense

By Andrew Shockey
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December 1, 2010

Shockingly Simple: Anti-vaccine movement does not protect from autism

By Andrew Shockey
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November 21, 2010

Shockingly Simple: Evolution might be basis of morality

By Andrew Shockey
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November 10, 2010

Shockingly Simple: Country’s constant demonization of the obese isn’t fair

By Andrew Shockey
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October 27, 2010

Shockingly Simple: Military going green, conservatives should follow

By Andrew Shockey
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October 16, 2010

Shockingly Simple: In vitro wins Nobel, but that doesn’t make it right

By Andrew Shockey
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October 13, 2010

Shockingly Simple: Computer testing allows punishment-free cheating

By Andrew Shockey
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October 5, 2010

Shockingly Simple: Scientists discover and deactivate ‘Homer Simpson Gene’

By Andrew Shockey
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September 29, 2010

Shockingly Simple: AquAdvantage: You can barely taste the genetic engineering

By Andrew Shockey
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September 22, 2010

Shockingly Simple: Concussions in football still a bigger problem than we realize

By Andrew Shockey
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September 6, 2010

All the girls in the bar get much prettier at closing time

By Andrew Shockey
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August 31, 2010

Shockingly Simple: Report says the oil may be invisible, but it’s not gone

By Andrew Shockey
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August 23, 2010