Science & Society

How to sell a broken hockey stick If there exists a scientist who can prove to the satisfaction of the world's leaders that global warming- anthropogenic or not- is a myth, he or she will get a Nobel prize and a medal from every government on Earth. ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 25 2010 - 4:35pm

Could a Lawsuit Shut Down the LHC at CERN?

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 whether to pull the plug on the famous experiment. Various ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Feb 23 2010 - 6:25am

Judge Judge Judges Judgement

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 hearing. Today is a day of hope for Simon Singh, for opponent ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 3 2010 - 4:42am

UK Libel Law Reform- A First Step

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 some cheer to those of us who believe that current UK l ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Apr 3 2010 - 4:43am

'Web Stress': Poor Online Experience Is Bad For Business, Says Study

CA, Inc., today announced what they say is the first ever neurological study of consumer reactions to a poor online experience. You won't know what that is because you are reading this site instead. They say results from the study prove that many co ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 2 2010 - 6:55pm

The Third Player Hypothesis

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 causes of observed effects. At one time it was thought that m ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 25 2010 - 10:36pm

Pitfalls Of Science Journalism

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 are saying to them then you need to understand t ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 26 2010 - 12:22pm

10 Discoveries In 10 Minutes

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 journalists. Here is their coverage, arranged using my ow ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Jul 27 2010 - 9:46am

The importance of proper controls (is homosexuality an illness?)

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 the psychiatrists changed their mind. ...

Blog Post - Adam Retchless - Feb 28 2010 - 1:39pm

Evidence, Or No Evidence; That Is The Question

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 different ways. For a scientist to state that "there is no e ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 1 2010 - 8:36am