Science & Society

Evolution Is Like Porn In Turkey? A Christmas Story

Think Christmas has gotten way too secular?  Turkey may be the place you want to move because they make sure kids stick with religion, though the 2.2% who are not Muslim will be tough to find so your Christmas dinner might be poorly attended.  Knowing how ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Dec 16 2011 - 4:14pm

Benefits Of New EPA Rules Greatly Outweigh Costs, If You Use Pretend Money

What is a paltry $195 billion in real cost versus $1 trillion in potential savings? Fans of 'jobs created or saved' fuzzy economics will love a report by the Joint Center For Political and Economic Studies, which says that six new Environmental P ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 22 2011 - 1:16pm

A Top 10 Science Stories Of 2011 List

Los Alamos National Laboratory's top 10 science stories of 2011 include alternative energy research, world record magnetic fields, disease tracking, the study of Mars, climate change, fuel cells, solar wind, and magnetic reconnection.  Mars Habitabil ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 23 2011 - 11:03am

Partisanship, Simplicity-Seeking, And Maladaptation

“Malicious,” “diatribe,” and “preposterous” are words recently thrown at me. (How remarkable that I lived nearly 60 years before drawing this kind of vitriol. Maybe I haven’t been assertive enough!) When a scientific question has political implications, pe ...

Article - Fred Phillips - Dec 27 2011 - 6:44pm

10 Key Science Events Of 2011

The previous year has forced us to confront difficult science questions: Was processing patents Einstein’s real strength? Are there any other planets out there like Earth? Why is the universe composed of matter instead of antimatter? 2011 had a bumper cro ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 30 2011 - 6:31pm

What does one mean by equality?

One nice features of Science 2.0 is the way it links to Science Codex and Real Clear Science.  The latter of these sometimes directs me to a journal called The Atlantic, in which I read What Americans Keep Ignoring About Finland's School Success The S ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Dec 31 2011 - 12:20pm

Chesterton and Evolution

As some of you are aware, I am a fan of the writings of G.K.Chesterton. In 1903, in an essay The Return of the Angels, he came out with this surprising statement: ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Jan 1 2012 - 1:41pm

ABC Investigates Facilitated Communication And The Wendrow Case

In the autism community, there are plenty of heated opinions, which lead to even more heated attacks against those who believe differently. Some of the fiercest attacks come from those who believe in debunked treatments like facilitated communication. No o ...

Article - Kim Wombles - Jan 7 2012 - 10:19am

God Of The Grant Gaps

A new study has used an interesting metric to highlight their concern about a disconnect between government funding of biomedical research and young investigators; Nobel Prizes.  As has been noted here numerous times, and by me at various talks, the averag ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 10 2012 - 3:41pm

Science's Parasitic Overlords?

[Their] monopolistic practices make Walmart look like a corner shop and Rupert Murdoch a socialist-  George Monbiot Want to know where a huge amount of taxpayers' money invested into science goes? Straight into the pockets of publishing companies ...

Article - Oliver Knevitt - Jan 13 2012 - 2:43pm