Mike the Mad Biologist laments the lack of political and public relations savvy of the “scientific leadership.”
One major problem that those who fight for evolution face is an inept scientific ‘leadership.’ Only the DLC has worse political instincts. This is a leadership that has presided over the gradual and steady de-funding of science, […]
Since I’ve read most of Paul Krugman’s non-academic writing (including his Peddling Prosperity, on the supply-siders), I shouldn’t be surprised. But I actually anticipated Krugman’s latest thesis in a post I wrote a year ago. It’s not the most original point, but the conclusion still holds: “without the model forged by the supply-siders - policy […]
Real Climate continues their attack against facile denial of climate change. (Hat tip: David Sucher). Lately, George Will is their target for propagating two fallacies of Michael Crichton’s: a) confusing local and global climate change, and b) concluding that change of scientific consensus means that consensus itself is subjective herdthink. (Mind you, Will’s favorable comparison […]
This is a great idea. Only judging from their response to Michael Crichton’s novel, they still need to work on penning responses accessible to the educated layman.