Science & Society
- Sir David Attenborough Tells The UN Global Warming Is Causing The 'Collapse Of Civilization'
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In 2006, former Vice-President and global warming clarion Al Gore said we only had 10 years to stop CO 2 emissions or it would be too late. More cynical people noted that he came up with that 10-year figure because it was two years from his rematch contest ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 5 2018 - 3:33pm
- The Guardian Lets Legal Clerk Erin Brockovich Trump Biology, Toxicology, And Chemistry
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The Guardian, official newspaper of those in the anti-science left who still like to pretend they love science, knows what pays the bills...and it ain't science. Yes, some real scientists write there, because it's mainstream media and scientists ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 7 2018 - 3:22pm
- Neil deGrasse Tyson: Proved Scientist Are Not Infallible. A Learned Opinion.
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N eil deGrasse Tyson PhD invoked the fact he had a PhD and Tchiya Amet El Maat did not have a PhD to imply that he is necessarily more credible than her. Furthermore, he used her beliefs against her. His explanation was pure argumentum ad verecundia ...
Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Dec 7 2018 - 11:51pm
- Thanks To No FDA Oversight Of Alternative Medicine, 40% Now Believe Cancer Can Be Cured Without Science
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America is the most science literate country in the world, we are dominant in Nobel prizes and science output, and we are thankful we are not France, but a new survey by Harris shows that we still have a long way to go. The results of the new survey revea ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 14 2018 - 11:28am
- "She Is Batshit Crazy"- What Bruce Blumberg And Other Anti-Science Activists Say About Zen Honeycutt
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Two weeks ago, CNN shocked some in the science community by having Vani Hari, who styles herself as "The Food Babe"(1), tell us that the bacterial problem on romaine lettuce was caused by modern medicine. It was no great surprise to most of us, ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 8 2019 - 4:47pm
- There Is A War Between Science And Religion
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As the West becomes more and more secular, and the discoveries of evolutionary biology and cosmology shrink the boundaries of faith, the claims that science and religion are compatible grow louder. If you’re a believer who doesn’t want to seem anti-scienc ...
Article - Jerry Coyne - Dec 23 2018 - 8:00am
- Christmas Cheer 2018
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Today is Christmas, and about this time folks in the New World may be thinking about breakfast. So to greet everyone reading this, here is a Russian Christmas card from before 1917, featuring Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) and his granddaughter Snegurochka ...
Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Dec 25 2018 - 9:17am
- We Don't Have A Teen Vaping Crisis In The US
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With the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rightly cracking down on sales of vaping devices to minors and U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams making a recent statement of concern, media are again repeating claims of an epidemic of vaping among children. ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 27 2018 - 2:17pm
- The Golden Globes Did Something Pro-Science, And Anti-Vaxxers Were Enraged
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When I first began writing about the anti-vaccine issue, California was the home of the movement (1). The state had more philosophical exemptions than the rest of the country combined, and they were primarily wealthy white elites living on the coast. You k ...
Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 10 2019 - 12:45pm
- Open Access Promotes Scientific Discovery- Efforts Like Canada's Aggressive New Copyright Dates Hold It Back
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As European science-related institutions, such as the European Research Council, have shown their growing preference for Open Access, e.g., via the Plan S, the primary rationale for this is the positive effect on the discovery of new knowledge that variou ...
Article - News Staff - Jan 8 2019 - 9:02am