EAST LANSING, Mich. — Writing instruction in U.S. classrooms is "abysmal" and the Common Core State Standards don't go far enough to address glaring gaps for students and teachers, a Michigan State…

Government-controlled science funding is so politically skewed today that a lot of people probably just agreed with a National Cancer Institute 'study' that claimed tobacco companies created the Tea…

Government-controlled science funding is so politically skewed today that a lot of people probably just agreed with a National Cancer Institute 'study' that claimed tobacco companies created the Tea…

The advent of science blogging in the early- and mid-2000s meant people needed things to write about - and people generally want to live in important times. That meant exaggeration, hysteria and…

Of the many flawed things about the 1990s Kyoto Protocol, like exempting China, India and Mexico and letting France and Germany pick the target date (1), one of the biggest flaws may have slipped…

Of the many flawed things about the 1990s Kyoto Protocol, like exempting China, India and Mexico and letting France and Germany pick the target date (1), one of the biggest flaws may have slipped…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22567023http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1836.html While the United States is now back at early 1990s levels of CO2 emissions,…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22567023http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1836.html While the United States is now back at early 1990s levels of CO2 emissions,…

If you think a university education is expensive, you might want to blame the government trying to create voters for its party by giving away something for free - in the early 1990s, Congress decided…

If you think a university education is expensive, you might want to blame the government trying to create voters for its party by giving away something for free - in the early 1990s, Congress decided…

Samuel Arbesman and K. Brad Wray, 'Demographics and the fate of the young scientist', Social Studies of Science April 2013 vol. 43 no. 2 282-286 doi: 10.1177/0306312712470218

http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2013/01/08/science_has_always_b... The mythology of the super-rational, completely impartial scientist is promoted by scientists - but it has probably done…

Science scores are up among students and two-thirds of students have a decent grasp of science.  That sounds pretty good, right? If you are in the 'education stinks so let's give it more money'…

two Representative are Republicans - Richard Hanna and George Miller (but he is a Californian, so pretty much a Democrat) Sen. Bernie Sanders is not a Democrat, he is an Independent Democrat…

Science is hard.  Because it is hard, the people teaching it should not be determined by how long they have been in a union.  In 1980, the same percentage of teachers voted for Jimmy Carter…

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, the 'food police' that sued McDonald's to try and have toys removed from Happy Meals, (and unsurprisingly helped create a "nonpartisan" group that…

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, the 'food police' that sued McDonald's to try and have toys removed from Happy Meals, (and unsurprisingly helped create a "nonpartisan" group that…

if you are reliant on government funding, you put yourself out of business http://skirsch.com/politics/globalwarming/ifrQandA.htm Why wouldn't this be valid? It is the exact same logic activists use…

Contained therein was a reality show about sheep. I get it, they want to sell eyeballs some ads, but surely there is a female scientist out there with more than a Master's degree and who happens to…

In Science Left Behind, I made what seemed to be an obvious point to everyone outside science journalism - but to very few in it: do not defend science. Science does not need defending. So if you…