Tag: Climate
“Scientists Say”: A Ubiquitous Category of Media Hype
The ice cap in the Arctic is 60 percent bigger than this time last year, scientists say.
Welcome to a New Blog by Our Darwin-Lobbying Friends at the NCSE; but First a Question
The National Center for Science Education has launched a new blog, called the “Science League of America,” with the stated goal of “Defending the Teaching of Evolution & Climate Science.”
When Good Science Turns Bad: Some Potentials for Ugly Distortion
The layman tends to think of “science” as some kind of uniform knowledge-producing machine: pour ingredients into the scientific method, and out come objective, scientific facts.
Contagious Apophenia in the Senate
Misperceiving patterns and lessons from random information is a form of psychiatric disease called “apophenia,” a delusional condition the sufferer confuses with reality.
On the Medved Show Today, Stephen Meyer and Jay Richards Will Discuss the "Anti-Science" Label
What do evolution and global warming have in common that skeptics seem to attract this kind of abusive talk?