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The media's mea culpa for their rampant journalistic malpractice during Climategate comes way too late, is far too little, and has long ago accomplished denialists' goals.
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We often worry about parents customizing their children into their warped idea of perfection. But what if the future parents want to put a limitation their kid's abilities?
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By neglecting their scientists and educations, politicians aren't saving money for their citizens, they're undermining their countries' future.
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Dr. Robert Lanza thinks he's discovered the secret of immortality and it's something very quantum and involving rebooting time loops...
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Peer review, long seen as a feature of any scientific endeavor, is actually a fairly new idea. And you wouldn't believe the stuff that got published as science before it was put in place...
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Answers In Genesis tries to debate the divine origins of logic as if it was a law of physics with the most illogical drivel they could muster.
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Peer review isn't perfect. But it's still our best hope for quality science and catching errors and frauds with a few small, but meaningful tweaks.
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John Horgan is on the warpath against Craig Venter because... the media prominently covered Venter's latest breakthrough with synthetic life?
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We still have no idea how quantum entanglement works, but we know it's much, much faster than the speed of light...
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Would aliens actually want to build a Dyson Sphere? It wouldn't be out of reach for them, but they might get a lot less power out of it, with a lot less utility than it seems at first glance...
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Michael Fitzpatrick's bold new idea for combatting denialism and attacks on scientific fact: pretend denialists always argue in good faith and don't call them out on their denialism.
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The first synthetically designed life form has been created in a proof of concept that shows how much we now understand about the fundamentals of microbial life.
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When it comes to science denial and illiteracy, the media is one of the biggest source of bad information and misleading opinions.
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If Giberson is the best Templeton's expensive finishing school can do in defending creationism, they should ask for their money back.
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Being told more people believed something makes you more likely to believe it too, even if science says the exact opposite.