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Obama and his Science Team
Obama pledges to embrace scientific advice, no matter how inconvenient. It’s just common sense – listen to the scientific experts for advice on science-related issues, no matter how inconvenient. But...
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Overbye on the Rightful Place of Science
Elevating Science, Elevating Democracy, excerpted paragraphs: To be honest, the restoration of science was the least of it, but when Barack Obama proclaimed during his Inaugural Address that he would...
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The War on Science Goes On…
In the weeks after the George Will kerfluffle and Bobby Jindal’s ignorance of geology[1], and Sarah Palin’s comment during dissing fruit fly research, we can see that the Republican war on science goes...
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Cells, Development, and Politics
In case you haven’t gotten the memo, tomorrow Pres. Obama will reportedly reverse the ban on stem cell research. Good. No, not because of some political reason, or the promise of a cure for some...
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Quote of the Day
Today, of course, we face more complex challenges than we have ever faced before: a medical system that holds the promise of unlocking new cures and treatments — attached to a health care system that...
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Unscientific American
Just picked up my copy of Mooney and Kirschenbaum’s Unscientific America: How Scientific Literacy Threatens Our Future a few days ago. I’m rather on vacation, so my wife is annoyed I’m even blogging...
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Understanding Scientific Illiteracy
In a continuation of my previous post on Mooney and Kirschenbaum’s Unscientific America: How Scientific Literacy Threatens Our Future, I have a few more thoughts on the elements underlying the majority...
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Open Letter to a Former Friend
Dusty, So it goes without saying that talking politics with friends can be a risky business. Friends can be lost and enemies made that way. It is sad, of course. But at the same time, I fervently...
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Competition is the New Socialism
While it’s not related to what I prefer to talk about – birds, biology, science – the health insurance reform debate raging in American politics is something that I have been following very closely....
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What would YOU tell the wealthy nations to do to halt biodiversity loss?
All their talk and rhetoric hasn’t really worked, say Guillaume Chapron and George Monbiot (an I agree completely): It’s on course to make the farcical climate talks in Copenhagen look like a roaring...
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