From The Washington Post: A St. Louis scientist who was among a select group picked by the Obama administration to pursue solutions to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has been dropped because of controversial writings on his website. So much for free speech. What happened to President Obama’s pledge to separate ideology from science? …
Some good news on global warming
A little good news on the global warming fight from CNNMoney.com: Chances dim for climate-change legislation NEW YORK (Fortune) — An influential coalition of Fortune 500 companies and environmental groups that was formed to support climate-change legislation has splintered over the Lieberman-Warner bill that is headed next week to the Senate floor. …. Without widespread …
Global Cooling?
Investor’s Business Daily has an editorial outlining some research being done on the effects of sun cycles on Earth’s climate. Apparently these heretics didn’t get the word from High Priest of Global Warmism Al Gore that all scientific inquiry into the matter is now over. Back in 1991, before Al Gore first shouted that the …
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The Left’s War on Science, again
From The Washington Post: A surgeon general’s report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly because the report did not promote the administration’s policy accomplishments, according to current …
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Evolution an important campaign issue?
We didn’t find much that was interesting or surprising about this Gallup survey showing that many Americans reject the theory that humans evolved from other life forms over millions of years. First, there seem to be some rather glaring contradictions in the results: One such question was included in a May Gallup Panel survey: Now …
This just in: men and women are different
From LiveScience (via Yahoo News): Men and women are actually from the same planet, but scientists now have the first strong evidence that the emotional wiring of the sexes is fundamentally different. Really? The first strong evidence? Aren’t any of these guys married? But seriously, while this study is interesting in the details it offers, …
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The Left’s war on science continues
Read this article from Opinion Journal as you recall various liberal complaints about “the Republican war on science” or “scientists being silenced by the Bush Administration (according to some on the left today, being profiled on 60 Minutes equals “being silenced”): Climate of Fear Global-warming alarmists intimidate dissenting scientists into silence …. Ambiguous scientific statements …
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The power of prayer and the liberal war on science
And we thought liberals wanted to keep science and religion separate. From The NY Times: Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were undergoing heart surgery, a large and long-awaited study has found. The “prayer” study is interesting only because of the glaringly unscientific nature of the whole enterprise. …
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Non-Embryonic Stem Cell Success
Here is an interesting article from The Washington Post (via The Corner): Embryonic Stem Cell Success Scientists in Germany said yesterday that they had retrieved easily obtained cells from the testes of male mice and transformed them into what appear to be embryonic stem cells, the versatile and medically promising biological building blocks that can …
The left’s war on science
Ever since George W. Bush became president, some have been complaining about “the politicization of science” or the idea that the current administration is undermining, ignoring, and stifling science in the United States. But what the complainers are usually doing is conflating science and policy. Various policy preferences can be supported with scientific evidence, but …
Dover, PA and “Intelligent Design”
Ramesh Ponnuru helpfully gets to the bottom line on the Dover, PA “intelligent design” decision handed down today, which found the mention of ID in public school to be unconstitutional: I’ve read about 40% of the decision, and it appears, with the exception of a few foolish passages, to be a plausible–though perhaps not the …
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Who’s politicizing science?
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Jay Nordlinger had an interesting tidbit that caught our eye in his always must-read “Impromptus” column Wednesday: My libertarian juices stirred a bit when reading this: WASHINGTON (AP) — SpongeBob SquarePants, Shrek and other characters kids love should promote only healthy food, a panel of scientists recommended. In a report released Tuesday, the Institute of …
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