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…

The National Institutes of Health have had a good run - President George W. Bush nearly doubled their funding over his predecessor, and when that happens a status quo for expectation sets in, much…

“Particulate matter causes premature death. It doesn’t make you sick. It’s directly causal to dying sooner than you should,” former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson told Congress on Sept. 22, 2011. “If…

3 years after the Obama administration released its Women in America report, lamenting the wage gap in women, they have done nothing at all to rectify it, including in the White House itself. …

3 years after the Obama administration released its Women in America report, lamenting the wage gap in women, they have done nothing at all to rectify it, including in the White House itself. …

Spite certainly involves some strange behavior. But if someone looks like they are trying to rush you, and you slow down, is that really spite? Is a Muslim terrorist doing a suicide bombing engaged…

There is an easy litmus test to know if you are talking to an atheist; mention science in the ancient world. Or the modern world. They really want to tell you how religious people are wrong. Critics…

A diet that combines unsaturated fats with nitrite-rich vegetables, such as olive oil and lettuce, can protect you from hypertension, suggests a new study led by King's College London. The findings,…

MISSOULA – A new paper co-written by four University of Montana researchers finds that humans have more than doubled tropical nitrogen inputs. Benjamin Sullivan, a researcher working with UM College…

Between 1889 and 2012, the Greenland sheet saw large-scale surface melting, according to the best available evidence. But claims that the melt events were driven by warming alone are incorrect,…

Individuals are more genetically similar to their spouses than they are to randomly selected individuals from the same population, claims a new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of…

An international team has discovered what happens on a molecular basis to insects that evolved resistance to genetically modified cotton plants.  Their findings shed light on how the global…

ATS 2014, SAN DIEGO ─ A large study of intensive care patients in California found that public reporting of patient outcomes did not reduce mortality, but did result in reduced admission of the…

I came to know through a social network (I have many colleagues as friends there, and they usually post more useful stuff than cute kittens) that ATLAS has launched a very intriguing competition. One…

Overweight political candidates have gotten fewer votes than thinner opponents, finds a new study co-authored by a Michigan State University weight bias expert. Of course, discrimination is…