Is science faith-based?
If you read any antiscience screeds, at some point or another most will claim that science is based on faith just as much as religion is. For example, the horrific Answers in Genesis website has this to say about science: ...
Science Fiction Overload
I’ve always loved science fiction but keeping up with the genre is a big damn job. I constantly worry I’m going to miss a breakthrough novel with the impact of Neuormancer or The Life of Pi or Replay just become I was wasn’t keeping up ...
Science is NOT faith-based
If you read any antiscience screeds, at some point or another most will claim that science is based on faith just as much as religion is. This is completely wrong. It shows (unsurprisingly) an utter misunderstanding of how science works ...
State Science and Technology Policy Advice: Issues, Opportunities ...
The federal government plays the predominant role in supporting research and development (R&D) and in establishing public policies that affect science and technology (S&T) in the United States. However, the federal government is no ...
Florida won!
On a vote of 4 to 3 the new state science standards passed, with modifications. Those modifications include the insertion of “scientific theory of” and “law of” throughout the document. We would prefer that there were no edits to the ...
The past and future of science journalism
Boyce recalled that the National Association of Science Writers, set up in the 1930s in the US, operated somewhat like a cult. For example, one proposal floated at the time was that only NASW members should be able to write about ...
America's 50 Greenest Cities: Popular Science Ranks 'Em
Photo credit: carie_camacho Throwing its hat into the ranking ring with Yahoo! and MSN's City Guides (to which TreeHugger was a contributor), Popular Science has crunched some numbers and ranked America's 50 Greenest Cities. ...
lies
callaway–this is not religion. standards stifle freedom. martinez–earth revolves around sun. do we question that? things are getting hairy. martinez is getting beat up. martinez says evolution is fact. martinez gets loud applause and ...
On Innuendo
Although I have a continuous supply of my own experiences involving women-in-science issues and phenomena, I also have a group of friends who feed me additional anecdotes. Today's story comes from one of my informants, who recently ...
Florida Board of Education members earn a B on science standards ...
The Florida Board of Education approved science standards with evolution, but if still appending the words "scientific theory of" before the word "evolution." The department staff earns enormous credit for giving the standards-writing ...