Science & Society

Save Your Money: Leadership Training Courses Don't Work

You may think this is an odd claim from Think Training Development Limited, a company that specializes in Leadership Training, but it got them on a site with a million readers so, like a magician exposing trade secrets in a tell-all book, it may just work ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2010 - 6:03pm

Media Credibility Saved By New Cosmetic Surgery Journalism Prize

The New Cosmetic Surgery Journalism Prize will be awarded by DDr. Heinrich for outstanding reporting on New Cosmetic Surgery techniques. That's right, journalists. You can win a prize from a cosmetic surgery company if you simply write about the techn ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 18 2010 - 10:46am

Is Your Government Making You Fat?

An investigative piece so explosive, no book company marketing hyperbole can be left out. "After reading BIG FAT LIES you will never trust the government again- Dr John Briffa" Hannah Sutter says she has used the analytical eyes of a lawyer to l ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2010 - 5:45pm

Science Reporting: Bad Because It's Cheap

In a column in Nature, Colin Macilwain suggests that bad science reporting is due in part to its relatively low cost: Propped up by the specious authority of their jargon and, most of all, by their cheapness to report — which stands in stark contrast to pr ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Feb 25 2010 - 3:57pm

Sci-Fi Writer David Brin Reveals His Secrets

David Brin (author of The Postman) is interviewed this week as part of Nature's ongoing series of interviews with science writers: Brin got his PhD in physics and then left research to write science fiction: For every Steven King, there are a dozen gu ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Feb 17 2010 - 11:06pm

Science Is Awesome! Sack The Journalists!

In December 2008 CNN announced that it was closing down its whole science and technology production team and moving the environmental agenda into their general news. It was as if the news world had just lost a continent, prompting four of the world's ...

Article - Richard Mankiewicz - Feb 25 2010 - 4:03pm

Where Science Meets Poetry

Where Science Meets Poetry Caveat:  it may strike the reader from what follows that I have an agendist stance against modern poetry.  I have no quarrel with that assessment. Quite obviously, science meets poetry in the field of linguistics.  But what if s ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 18 2010 - 5:34pm

Millions Fed: A Recommended Read

Millions Fed: A Recommended Read Millions Fed: Proven Successes in Agricultural Development is a recently published free pdf book which details case studies in sustainable food production methods.   The data is extensively peer reviewed and offers much of ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 18 2010 - 6:29pm

Healthy vs Pathological Skepticism

Physicist and sci-fi author David Brin on healthy versus pathological skepticism w.r.t. climate science: What factors would distinguish a rational, pro-science "skeptic"- who has honest questions about the HGCC consensus- from members of a Denier ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Feb 18 2010 - 10:38pm

Science Communication, Culture and the Media: New UK Government Reports

The British government has just published a whole batch of reports on science communication. The Science&Media Report was published on 20th January 2010, including a variety of supporting documents. The Science for All Expert Group has also just publis ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Feb 19 2010 - 11:39am