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national science foundation — In a very Cult-of-Trump move, four well-known Republican Senators have collaborated and conspired to keep people ignorant. The story comes via Mother Jones where an article by Dan Spinilli puts it like this … These 4 GOP Senators Are Shocked that the National Science Foundation Encourages Science Education So they […]

4 GOP Senators conspire to attack evidence-based science

This entry was posted in Climate Change education politics science and tagged Climate Change education national science foundation science on June 30, 2018 by Dave

truth — I’d like to point to two specific articles today that are related to the idea of communicating things that are true. Before we dip in, let’s first establish what we mean by “truth”. Religious truth is never wrong In a religious context communication of “truth” is the promotion of ideas […]

Communicating “Truth”

This entry was posted in science society and tagged communication kate Marvel Michael Mann Sarah Myhre science truth on June 22, 2018 by Dave

censor — I’ve previously written a few postings on this topic. Back in May I was writing about the censorship of press releases at the US Department of the Interior (a study highlighted an increasing risk of global flooding, but the press release purged all references to the cause being Climate change). […]

Trump Administration Censoring Science

This entry was posted in Climate Change news politics science and tagged censorship science on May 12, 2018 by Dave

Intelligent Design — Intelligent Design is the idea that life as we know it was designed and that evolution is a myth. It is essentially creationism dressed up to sound sciency and so the claim is presented without all the religious terminology. This topic has popped up because the Discovery Institute, the primary […]

Is Intelligent Design scientific?

This entry was posted in Critical Thinking origins religion science Skepticism and tagged COTY Discovery Institute Intelligent Design science on February 16, 2018 by Dave

peer review — Back in 1974, the famed physicist Richard Feynman gave a commencement speech at the California Institute of Technology in which the term “Cargo Cult Science” was popularised as a way of describing science that was not really science at all. What we appear to have now is the emergence of Cargo Cult Peer […]

Fake Science – Dog is editor of Peer review journal

This entry was posted in science Skepticism society and tagged cargo cult peer review science on November 28, 2017 by Dave

Science vs Belief — There is an article in the UK’s Guardian all about a myth. It is entitled … Would you Adam and Eve it? Why creation story is at heart of a new spiritual divide OK, let’s give you a quick summary of it. We live in a world where there are […]

Science vs Belief: Is this conflict a myth?

This entry was posted in atheism bloggers People religion science and tagged belief Catherine Pepinster Coel Hellier Creationism evolution science Science vs Belief on September 23, 2017 by Dave