Science & Society

As some of you may be aware, this year the U.S. Congress finally passed the Zadroga Act which will compensate the first responders to the 9/11 attack as well as those that worked at the site for the…

Science 2.0 was founded because, contrary to the beliefs of some scientists and some journalists, the public is really, really smart.  And they know a lot of science, they just frame it through…

Science and religion. Often mutual suspicion, sometimes plain hostility, seldom a workable combination. When the active inquiry in science meets the passive belief in religion, worldviews…ideologies…

A recent NY Times article echoes what I said last week in a meeting about a Science 2.0 television pilot - incredibly literate people who know a lot about science can't name a scientist. It's…

Our more militant brethren in the science and science media community paint all religious people as intellectually immature but AAAS surveys show nearly 40 percent of AAAS members are religious and a…

Almost 50% of female scientists and 25% of male scientists at the nation's top research universities say career kept them from having as many children as they wanted, something they might do over…

Susan Greenfield is always interesting.   And New Scientist is always willing to print anything.  It's a happy time when they get together.    Greenfield once said playing…

Racist S.O. B. Satoshi Kanazawa said “Asians can’t think”, are raised to be conformist, plagiarize by copying ‘verbatim’  the work of established scientist while sincerely thinking it’s honoring…

In Proofiness - How Gender And Pay Statistics Are Used To Do Bad Things, I noted that some of the statistics regarding gender and pay in science were misconstrued to make it look like science…

Proofiness, slightly different than Stephen Colbert's truthiness, is basically finding statistics you want to believe to enhance your confirmation bias.  It was coined by Charles Seife, a…