Ross Pomeroy

Ross Pomeroy

Editor, RealClearScience

ross pomeroy

Steven Ross Pomeroy is the editor of RealClearScience. As a writer, Ross believes that his greatest assets are his insatiable curiosity and his ceaseless love for learning. Follow him on Twitter @SteRoPo.

Ecological footprint measurements, as currently constructed and presented, are so misleading as to preclude their use in any serious science or policy context. 
Gender, like so many things, is occasionally in a gray area. And that's okay.
Thanks to some scientific sleuthing courtesy of a dedicated toxicologist, nicotine may have to surrender its infamous position.
While hundreds of flossing studies have been conducted, many are plagued by potential issues of researcher bias, as well as poor experimental design. In the past decade, three systematic reviews sought to navigate these muddy waters.
Americans severely under-report how much food they eat, and this has affected decades of nutrition data. 
Since open access publishers are effectively paid up front, the more papers they accept, the more money they make.
Whether we concede it or not, humanity longs for its cosmic significant other.