Here’s what Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, said in reply to members of the alternative medicine community who don’t like the way their pseudo-science has been portrayed on the info-site after they started a petition to make Wikipedia change its policies: No, you have to be kidding me. Every single person who signed this petition […]
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has sounded the alarm on climate change, with a new report that explains that 97% of climate experts have concluded human-caused climate change is happening — and details the dangers of continuing to ignore the reality and the risk. I asked an AAAS member, Dr. Howard Frumkin to […]
Sometimes I love Twitter — like a few days ago, when notorious anti-vaccine hype artist and “The View” co-host Jenny McCarthy asked her followers, “What is the most important personality trait you look for in a mate?” The Daily Beast took note of some of the responses the Twitterverse posted in response: My ideal mate […]
The common cold has been around longer than any of us, and we still aren’t close to a cure. Why? On my America Weekend show, biochemistry professor Ann Palmenberg explained that it’s not as simple as coming up with a medicine or vaccine to fight a single virus, because there may be as many at […]
Few things annoy me more than people who make bad decisions based on bad information (or the lack thereof) — and we live in a world where misinformation is not only prevalent, but also easy to access, thanks to the internet. Case in point: parents who don’t have their kids vaccinated because they’ve “heard” something […]
Three weeks ago on America Weekend, I talked with Laura Anderson, food columnist for Slate, who was critical of a high school biology teacher in Iowa who turned his personal weight loss into a project for his science students. So today, I invited the teacher, John Cisna, to explain how and why he ran the […]