One of the difficulties of judging the ways of people is the fact that highly intelligent individuals can at the same time be in the grip of a totally cockeyed ideology.  One reads things like…

Policy makers know to hit biology where it counts; in the wallet. Rural farmers in Mexico have seen honey shipments to Germany rejected because of genetically modified organism (GMO) soybean…

Yet another government science report has found that the Keystone XL pipeline is not going to be risky to the environment.  This isn't the first time the Obama administration's own scientists…

If you listen to political pundits in Virginia and nationwide, House Bill 207 is a covert effort to hinder evolution education. (1)  The bill never mentions evolution, it instead "encourages…

'Whole Grain', like 'Natural' and 'Organic', has a lot of definitions. Fortunately for marketing departments, people often read their own positive definitions into those terms. But people invariably…

If you want to get quality research, you want the best researchers, right? Not necessarily. An advanced trend in science academia is social engineering, and that means building a team that isn't…

While there is a glut of PhDs in academia, to an extent where some post-doc jobs don't even pay anything, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology said in 2012 that America will…

Voice voting is still used at some civic, local and county meetings. In more of a traditional sense, it's also still employed in Congress and some state meetings. But new paper finds that a…

If you care about what is in your food, you have no greater sympathetic intellect than me. But if you are an anti-science activist, you may not understand the distinction between what is in your food…

Currently in the UK, when health care workers are "unequivocally guilty of willful or reckless neglect or mistreatment of patients" that is not criminal behavior but Dr. Jo Bibby, Director of…