Science & Society

There has been much discussion lately about the ignorance of matters scientific among the public.  With this is mind, here are some thoughts from Blighty. I have just been speaking to my…

Jack of Kent updated his blog at the weekend to highlight one aspect of the BCA v Singh case: what is evidence? Both science and law rely on evidence and yet they use the same word in subtly…

Iowa State University physicist Kerry Whisnant has developed a mathematical formula that he says predicts how well baseball teams will perform on the field. The new formula is based on work of Bill…

This American Life from Chicago Public Radio has an interesting story about the history of psychiatry with regards to homosexuality: why homosexuality used to be considered a mental illness, and why…

Here are the top ten science headlines ripped, raw and bleeding, from this month's huge AAAS uber-science meeting. The National Association of Science Writers sponsored 10 undergraduate science…

Pitfalls Of Science Journalism How do we fix it so that journalists can again be the 'trusted guides' they used to be? If you are going to write about science and want the public to trust what you…

The Third Player Hypothesis Ever since our first ancestor had enough brain cells to ponder something more than the flavor of roast dinosaur, we have pondered over the why of our world: the real…

UK Libel Law Reform - A First Step A UK Parliamentary committee has today 24 February 2010 published online its report on press standards, privacy and libel. The committee's conclusions will give…

Judge Judge Judges Judgement Today, 23 Feb 2010, a high court judge named Lord Judge has just judged the meanings of some terms used in a previous judgement in a lower court, during a pre-trial…

An article has just been published at New Scientist claiming that if repeated attempts at lawsuits against the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) were to continue, then a judge may well have to decide on…