Science & Society

Did science in newspapers die?  By 2009, USA Today, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal ended their Science sections, leaving just the New York Times as a major paper with a…

Before getting to the review, I thought I'd share some of the lighter side of what comes from actively engaging people who think vaccines are responsible for all of today's ills. You know you've…

If I ask a science audience to guess, off the tops of our collective heads, which state would hold an irrational science position that was not only boneheaded but downright dangerous to each other…

Samuel George Morton (1799 – 1851) was an American physician and scientist, perhaps best known for his Crania Americana, in which he described the results of the measurements, with a focus on cranial…

Here, for completeness, is the last in this group about the BBC series  All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace A series of films exploring the idea that we have been colonised by the…

A pleasure it is, when Chemistry World drops through my letterbox each month, to read the Historical Profile therein. This month (June 2011) featured the discovery of nitrous oxide, aka laughing gas…

Sydney Morning Herald columnist Richard Glover jokes it is time to put a special mark on global warming skeptics - I assume he is joking, since he recognizes that is a little too Nazi creepy even for…

I suspect a lot of people will be posting this (today's SMBC), but hey, I will totally jump on that bandwagon, If only it was that easy! People don't subscribe to homeopathy for logical reasons…

Dear BBC, Before publishing an article like this... ...would you take a step back and think, "Is this really what my facts are telling me?" Because, if they don't, consider your position as a self-…

This morning I read this in our Daily Telegraph: It is television, not just the people who make it, which has a Left-wing bias Here is the core of the article But it’s also the case that television…