Science Education & Policy

Shadow Scholar Out Of Hiding- Will Rutgers Grant His PhD?

Remember The-Shadow-Scholar, the deeply disturbing confirmation of that academia generally selects for meaningless drivel while making critical information unheard; the story that especially academic media try to contain as a side issue about student writ ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 1 2012 - 10:26am

Europe Starts To Embrace Online Education

Europe isn't in this Millennium on science but they are beginning to embrace the Internet. The availability and popularity of online education in Europe is on the rise. Following the revolutionary developments in online learning in the US, Europe is ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2012 - 8:05am

Gender Analysis Says Women In Science And Technology Low In EU, US Workplace

Women may own the social sciences and education but they are under-represented in more math-intensive fields, according to a paper which looks at the US, EU, Brazil, South Africa, India, Korea and Indonesia. It was conducted by advocates of international ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2012 - 10:19am

Controversial Phthalate Plasticizer Found Safe For Children’s Toys, Confounding Activists

Bumbling coverage on phthalates underscores how activist journalism endangers ‘public science’ Last year, campaigning journalist Susan Freinkel noted that she wrote her anti-chemical book, Plastics: A Toxic Love Story, because she was shocked about how mu ...

Article - Jon Entine - Oct 9 2012 - 1:19pm

Winners Of SciVal Award Brazil 2012 Announced

Scientific products and services company Elsevier and the Federal Coordination of Improvement of Personnel in Higher Education (Capes / MEC), today announced the winners of the second edition of SciVal Award Brazil 2012, honoring higher education and rese ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 19 2012 - 10:57am

Guest Post: Chris Hill, Who Is Your Savior?

I read the text below in the Facebook page of a colleague and friend, Christopher Hill. The text was meant as a facebook rant- sort of- but it raises important points. I liked what he wrote and I asked him if I could repost it here to the benefit of a lar ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 10 2012 - 10:09am

In The Wake Of L'Aquila, How Should European Scientists Handle Risk Evaluations?

In the wake of Italian scientists being sentenced for not having sufficiently warned the public about the risks of a severe earthquake of L'Aquila 2009, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the French Académie des sciences have publ ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 12 2012 - 1:30pm

Chocolate Makes You Smarter, So You Stop Reading BBC News

UPDATE: BBC radio contacted me to let me know they corrected their mistake. I am very glad to hear that! So you can continue reading BBC after all! Probability inversion is one of the nastiest mistakes one can do handling the results of a statistical anal ...

Article - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 23 2012 - 9:49am

The Quote of the Week: Cohen on the NIL Hypothesis

"[...] Given the fact that the nil hypothesis is always false, the rate of Type-I errors is 0%, not 5%, and [...] only Type-II errors can be made, which run typically at about 50% [...] [T]ypically, the sample effect size necessary for significance i ...

Blog Post - Tommaso Dorigo - Nov 20 2012 - 4:03am

Physicists And Kung Fu Nuns

What can Kung Fu Nuns teach CERN scientists about cosmic energy?   To start with, they would have to convince CERN scientists that 'cosmic energy' actually exists, and they recently got a chance to do that when the European Organization for Nucl ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 3 2012 - 9:13pm