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drama and politics, now with less science!

Celebrity skeptics collapse in on themselves in a multi-blog feud that has absolutely nothing to do with science and education.
drama and politics, now with less science!

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yes, science is worth it. now please start giving a damn about it.

Far too many denizens of social media are upset that Curiosity cost $2.5 billion because they don't understand how and why that money was spent.
yes, science is worth it. now please start giving a damn about it.

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no, no, you should fear jargon

Jargon is useful, but not when you're tying to explain the fundamentals of your work.
no, no, you should fear jargon

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when a heat wave is just a heat wave

Sometimes it's hot for a couple of weeks. But sometimes, that heat wave is part of a pattern that hints at bad things to come...
when a heat wave is just a heat wave

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why yes virginia, there is a higgs boson

The existence of the Higgs boson has been confirmed and the Standard Model is upheld yet again. Now what?
why yes virginia, there is a higgs boson

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how think tanks could buy themselves a study

Mark Regnerus' study of homosexual parenting is rife with cherry-picking, misrepresentation, and baseless assertions. This is why he's being so harshly criticized.
how think tanks could buy themselves a study

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want more stem grads? open your wallet…

Everybody seems to want more STEM majors, scientists and highly trained engineers. But nobody seems to want to pay for them.
want more stem grads? open your wallet…

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who will save us from the gmo monster?

Anti-GMO activism is the left's version of global warming denialism and it's just as vicious and fact-free.
who will save us from the gmo monster?

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the challenge of popular science writing

No good deed goes unpunished, including writing a science book that will get critiqued by scientists who aren't shy about getting pedantic.
the challenge of popular science writing

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how we shouldn't fix research grant problems

Having the public vote on what science gets funded and why to fix the issues with how grants are given out is an idea only a politician could love and would be disastrous in practice.
how we shouldn't fix research grant problems

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how new agers escape the human condition

There's nothing quite like creationism mixed with a heavy dose of woo in which anything you dream of can come true because quantum.
how new agers escape the human condition

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so whose anti-science is really worse?

Pseudoscience on the left may not be as dangerous or pervasive as on the right. But it's still there and still a major problem.
so whose anti-science is really worse?

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oh quantum causality, we hardly knew ye…

A new experiment shows that the quantum world obeys causality only begrudgingly, and sometimes, not at all...
oh quantum causality, we hardly knew ye…

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why retractions aren't really a bad thing

Don't worry about retractions or bad papers being discovered by scientists trying to build on and replicate each other's work. That's exactly how science advances.
why retractions aren't really a bad thing

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why opera's lead scientist should've stayed

OPERA experiment's lead investigator resigned after a scathing rebuke from his fellow scientists over the neutrino detection incident. He should've been allowed to stay.
why opera's lead scientist should've stayed

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