Judicial Activism Is Always Bad For Science

Judicial Activism Is Always Bad For Science

Politics is funny business because there will always be a conflict between freedom, democracy and the Constitution and political winds blow decisions in various directions - that's the way it was…
Investigating Ghosts - For Real?

Investigating Ghosts - For Real?

Hank recently wrote a piece that dealt with the problem of a "ghost train" and a "ghost hunter" that was killed by a real train while waiting for the apparition. Since these were amateur ghost…
Fad Science Is Bad Science

Fad Science Is Bad Science

The Wall Street Journal took the Marc Hauser controversy (barely noticed here, because it's evolutionary psychology, which is sort of apodictically evident as bad science so we didn't react to it)…
The New Dark Ages In Blinding Light

The New Dark Ages In Blinding Light

When selling popular science, relativity theory is presented as weird, the quantum as unfathomable, inflation is ghostly, faster than light. Prominent scientists justify this self important…
Phil Plait Creates A Bad Universe

Phil Plait Creates A Bad Universe

Dr. Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy fame has been a Science 2.0 favorite since the moment we came online and for almost a decade prior to that.  He combines wit and no-nonsense skepticism with the…
Should bloggers have control over ads?

Should bloggers have control over ads?

It's been a strange summer for online content and Simon Owens at The Next Web asks an obvious question - should bloggers have control over ads or not? It's a non-issue here, of course - every writer…
Flying Or Driving: Which Is Safer?

Flying Or Driving: Which Is Safer?

In reading one of the other posts a casual point was made regarding the relative safety of flying versus driving.  It is generally assumed that flying is, by far, the safest of the two modes of…
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