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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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