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POPSRepublicans are, well, freaking insane As the election draws nearer, republican candidates are starting to get desperate to draw more attention to themselves by actually making clear, logical and rational statements so that they can rise above the cesspool of republican anti-science ignorance.
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POPSDana Rohrabacher (R-CA) Climate change fail. But it’s not surprising. Rep. Rohrabacher’s web page about climate change is almost a textbook case of global warming denialism, right down to his linking to a thoroughly trashed petition against climate change. And he joins in lockstep many of his Republican congressmen in such antireality beliefs.
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POPSOh, Texas, this guy runs your school board? Spoken like a true politician. Wait. . .What?? Did this guy say anything? This is why we should have stricter national standards for education. The right-wing creationists realized years ago they needed to fill the school boards and local political structures with their believers to create a nation of brainwashed zombies. This is proof of the success they’ve had getting the ignorant and the ill-informed into places of power. I’m still waiting for creationists to come up with a scientific model instead of trying to tear down one that has taken billions of years to build.
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POPSPrince Charles the Quack Well with being a royal man so folk can swoon and look up to him, and peddling antiscience and superstition, in between dressing up as a naval commander, is it any wonder that sensitive people see in him the genesis of fascism?
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POPSThe Politicization of Science Great article! You'll need bugmenot to log in & read it. Apart from the fact that in reality decision-makers rarely are the wise, unbiased, and entirely objective people textbooks would have them be, this model fails to consider the real-world phenomenon of “an excess of objectivity.” “Excess of objectivity” is a term coined by Dan Sarewitz, professor of science and society at Arizona State University (ASU), who, in an interview for bridges, claims that “there is plenty of science to go around. You don’t really need to distort the science. All you need to do in many cases is find the right science. That is not an indictment of science or scientists, but a statement about the complexity of reality and nature and the difficulty of defining problems in very narrow ways.”
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POPSThe Scientific Method - Lecture Notes This is just a Table of Contents. See here for the notes themselves: http://www.inquiringminds.org/education/syllabus-cotton-scalise-lecture-notes.html Check out the source to, there's excellent material there for teachers for example (about science, skepticism, pseudoscience, etc.).
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POPSIgnorance as the basis of Science As Pascal suggested, in our youth we are indoctrinated into traditional tribal beliefs, as various as the tribal gods are various. Many of us live out our lives in thrall to the traditions into which we are born. Others question their inheritance and embark upon a lifetime of learning. The former end up convinced they know everything. The latter end as they began, in ignorance -- but a self-professed ignorance that is sublime and glorious in its tenatively-held and ever-expanding wealth of knowledge.
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POPSClimate Change Naysayers Excessive greenhouse gas emissions are dangerous - enough said. If you don't believe the literature, stick your mouth on the end of a tailpipe
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POPSAnn Druyan on Science, Wonder & Spirituality Also in this episode, Carl Sagan’s last public address for CSICOP , from its conference in Seattle in 1994, is presented in its entirety. In this keynote, entitled “Wonder and Skepticism”, oh yeah ;-) (Ann Druyan is the widow of Carl Sagan)
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