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Forbes Takes Down Anti-Science Beliefs At NPR

Feb 01 2012 | comment(s)

Who has more credibility to the NPR audience, a scientist or someone who runs an organic yogurt company? It depends on the issue, of course. When it comes to global warming, science is awesome but when it comes to food security for poor people, science is evil corporations out to kill us all. So they accept the facts of the yogurt maker.

Should You Resign Over A Paper You Disagree With?

Jan 31 2012 | comment(s)

Klaudia Brix of Jacobs University has resigned from the board of the Italian Journal of Anatomy and Embryology, the official publication of the Italian Society of Anatomy and Histology, because a paper by prominent 'HIV does not cause AIDS' researcher Peter Duesberg of U.C. Berkeley was published.

Redefining Autism For DSM-V

Jan 22 2012 | comment(s)

Changes to the diagnostic definition of autism will be published in the fifth edition of the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" - DSM V - but exactly what those changes will be is a key point of discussion. There are still a lot of qualifying issues in a lot of areas for a publication that has already been a long time in the making.

At stake? Apparently a lot of money. Autism was once rare enough that a definition was not rigorous but it also was not crucial - some leeway was allowed. As a result, recent increased instances, either to more occurrences or more accurate diagnoses or even mis-diagnosis, have made the new definition for DSM-V a hot topic.

The Kid Questions About Science That Parents Fear Most

Jan 19 2012 | comment(s)

Adult science literary has tripled since I was a kid, despite the shrill claims that teachers are incompetent, people are stupid and science education is "dismal" that we seen thrown around in consumer media and the advocacy-based segment of science blogging. In reality, people are pretty smart about science, but it can be humbling and people are less confident about things that are difficult.

Nothing shows that more than asking parents themselves what questions from their kids they find tough to explain. Kids are curious and it may take two or three levels of explanation to get the point across - and that isn't easy for anyone to do.

Maybe Assistant Comment Editors Shouldn't Write About Science

Jan 16 2012 | comment(s)

Tom Chivers, Telegraph's assistant comment editor, may think he is being all edgy and cool by claiming Republicans - 50% of America - are anti-science. In reality, he is like an Emo-haircut wearing kid dressed in black insisting he is an outsider while he dresses like all the rest of them.