Early in 2007, I wrote a few articles lamenting that framing, by journalists and bloggers, was going to end badly, along with assertions about science being settled, which is a fundamentally anti-science position when presented to (or by) people outside science (much like 'theory is colloquially used wrong) who don't get the context and therefore shouldn't have the term...
read moreSince the bulk of academic research has been taxpayer-funded, it's become increasingly silly to allow private companies to take ownership of the results. Congress passed a law declaring NIH-funded studies must be put in a public repository and it withstood the onslaught of the Democratic House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers Jr. in 2008 but strong leadership by Elias Zerhouni at...
read moreGoogle skews overwhelmingly Democrat – their genesis as a product of taxpayer funding and academia make that perfectly logical. Google’s Political Action Committee technically gives to both sides but when a VP hosts a fundraiser for one side at her house and Google employees are some of the most generous donors to President Obama’s election campaign, well, being a lobbyist...
read moreNo, seriously. Christopher Jonassen took pictures of worn-out frying pans but, if you are a Science 2.0 reader, you probably thought they were planets in a remote galaxy.See all of...
read moreWhen I want a popsicle, I want a popsicle, I don't need the popsicle framed through social justice issues or a world view, but if you need a certain kind of popsicle to assuage your liberal guilt that you can buy a popsicle and a woman in Arabia cannot (or is it just driving, voting, and wearing clothes of their choosing they cannot do?) , San Francisco - Frisco as local people love to call it -...
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