Smug supposedly 'pro-science' people who seem to embrace science primarily to ridicule religious people don't have all that much science understanding. Instead, they believe science, including evolution. Most of them know very little about adaptive radiation or any mechanism of evolution.Fundamentalism does not just happen among religious types. But most people are not fundamentalists...
read moreSmug supposedly 'pro-science' people who seem to embrace science primarily to ridicule religious people don't have all that much science understanding. Instead, they believe science, including evolution. Most of them know very little about adaptive radiation or any mechanism of evolution.Fundamentalism does not just happen among religious types. But most people are not fundamentalists...
read moreFor most of the past 50 years, archaeologists thought they knew how humans arrived in the New World. At the end of the last ice age, sea levels dropped and big-game hunters living in eastern Siberia followed their prey across the Bering land bridge and into Alaska. Then they swept across the unpopulated continent. Archaeologists called these presumed pioneers the Clovis culture, after distinctive...
read moreA surprising number of scientists defy the 'liberal' stereotype and are more libertarian than they are given credit for (including by conservatives and liberals) - no surprise there, liberal and libertarian derive from the same root word for freedom and freedom is essential to quality science.Writing on PolicyMic.com, Cameron English interviews RealClearScience editor Dr. Alex Berezow, who argues...
read moreIt's been said that science fiction can sometimes turn into science fact.In that same vein, it may be that stories from The Onion (More U.S. Children Being Diagnosed With Youthful Tendency Disorder) may one day become part of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). read...
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