The anti-science committee in Congress

It is indeed wholly appropriate for congress to have a House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. However, what currently makes the entire endeavour a complete fiasco is that it needs to be renamed to something more like “House Committee on Anti-Science, Religion, and Superstition” because that is the direction the current chair appears to have taken. The Republicans … Read more

Religion no excuse for promoting scientific ignorance – Lawrence Kraus

Lawrence M. Krauss, a director of the Arizona State University Origins Project, and also a professor in its School of Earth and Space Exploration, and physics department, has written an article in New Scientist, that I highly recommend. Its not about a new scientific discovery, but is instead making a very important point regarding science … Read more