Proof That People Still Believe Bullshit
This weekend, in a conversation with Dr. Andrew Rosenberg on the Union of Concerned Scientists about the diminished role of independent scientists as witnesses in Congressional committee hearings, I bemoaned the increased use of false equivalences. As an example, I...
Google Lunar X Prize
It has been 42 years since humans stood on the lunar surface, and it doesn't look like NASA is going back anytime soon. The agency doesn't even have vehicles to get astronauts to and from the international space station anymore -- Americans have to hitch a ride on...
The Latest Climate Change Report
Last week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new report about the impact of climate change and how it is already affecting us. To explain the report, I asked Michael Mann (one of our top climate scientists) to join me on America Weekend. I asked...
Science Loses To Politics
What happens when you cross science and politics? Too often, science loses. That's the conclusion of my America Weekend guest, Dr. Andrew Rosenberg, director of the Center For Science And Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He bases it on research about...
Wiki Bravo!
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...
Sounding The Alarm On Climate Change
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...
Victories For Skeptics
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...
Why Can’t We Cure The Common Cold?
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,...