Culture
Jonah Goldberg flips the “anti-science” smear against all those GOP prez hopefuls inside out
The criminal hyperlink, and how it affects you
Bring back natural history, say biologists
California Science Center, Darwin, and the real world of insurance
Ann Coulter on the dog that ate Darwin’s fossils
Jewish scientists who are not Darwinists
He said it: Jonah Goldberg on why media promote failed experts
Oft said before but bears repeating: Jonah Goldberg on the media role in the bunkum cult of the expert: There are no more devout members of the cult of expertise than mainstream journalists. They rely on experts for guidance about what is “mainstream” and accurate and what is not. Sometimes that’s fine. Surgeons are extremely reliable sources to explain how a heart attack happens. They’re not as reliable at telling you who will have one, save in a statistical sense, and even less reliable at telling you when a specific person will have one. That’s because prediction is hard. Experts — in politics, economics, climate — are very, very bad at telling people what will happen tomorrow, let alone next Read More ›
Darwin’s contribution to Deep Original Thought – and why it is no use
Losing no time staking his share of the Darwin-doubting vote, Ron Paul says, I don’t accept the theory of evolution
American election 2012: When science is nuts, anti-science is newly respectable
Your handy free guide to science-based alarmism past and present
Here’s an interesting piece on science-based alarmism, from Pajamas Media: Take the alarm over mercury in fish: in 2004, an Environmental Protection Agency employee warned that 630,000 babies per year were born at risk of brain and nervous system damage due to “unsafe” levels of mercury in their mothers’ blood. Expectant mothers were discouraged from eating fish. Japan consumes a lot of fish, and the supposedly unsafe levels cited by the EPA are exceeded by 74% of women of childbearing age there. Yet there is no evidence that their children are mentally deficient. In fact, only benefits have been reported from high levels of fish consumption, including good brain function and improved intelligence at age four. The alarming forecast of Read More ›