College Scholarships gives away 10.000 dollars to support a young blogger still in college. You can surf to their site and vote for the one you think is most deserving, the one who should get supported and may be in need of further support. However, you might as well not vote, because the contest is already “won”. Why? Because she is already having support more than enough: The whole SB front page was set up for days in order to get their large base of sheepish readers to support their own blogger, and do not think SB would encourage readers to first look at the other blogs to build an informed opinion, an out of fashion approach you may associate with the term “science”. Oh no, this is straight SB hustle; make the masses vote for our guy so in the end we have another honor that we can spin was supposedly awarded for insightful blogging.

SB is abusing the contest rendering it impossible to deliver what was originally its goal, namely supporting the most deserving young blogger in need of further support.

SB is all blog and little science, it is cheerleading for naïve scientism, polarization against anything not already mainstream, riding around on the old “we scientists are so suppressed in this religious world” while actually being a bunch of really well fed people already at the top, corrupted by the little power they have, against critical voices in science, against original young scientists who want to uphold scientific integrity, against all other religions but scientism.