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The Office of Science & Technology Policy is a board that advises the President on the “effects of science and technology on domestic and international affairs” (is that broad or what?). Last week, they launched a blog forum to solicit public input on the issue of access to publically-funded research. This is all part of [...] Bill Maher has been receiving a lot of criticism, but not for his political views or his satirical take on society, or even his anti-religious propaganda. Bill Maher is receiving criticism because he has taken up the flag against “western medicine” and has become yet another celebrity vehicle for spreading misinformation, specifically on vaccine safety. [...] I am a Life Sciences girl. Unlike many of my fellow skeptics, my interest in science cannot be traced to watching Cosmos as a kid. I happen to think large fuzzy animals are cool, but space is pretty cool too. However, I can easily recognize the incredible contribution that astrophysicists, like Carl Sagan and Neil [...] Ninety-one percent of Americans correctly responded that aspirin is recommended to prevent heart attacks. (Photo from wiki commons.) So the Pew study from this summer showed that only 32% of the public “think that humans, or other living things have evolved due to natural processes.” But, that statistic by itself doesn’t say a whole lot, [...] "A Venerable Orang-outang", a caricature of Charles Darwin published in The Hornet, 1871 Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum, co-authors of “Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future,” wrote an op-ed piece for the Guardian yesterday rehashing their views on the tumultuous relationship between science and religion. Their points have all been made before… and [...] |
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