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America's health secretary borrows scientific credentials he does not have

Conspiracy theorist and roadkill enthusiast RFK Jr. told CNN's Dana Bash she probably could not understand his argument because she was not a scientist. "Well, you're not either,"...

Want the Public to Trust Science Again? In Four Lessons, Here’s How NOT to Do It

Ethan Siegel’s approach to public discussion of science is common enough: the exalted scientist reaches down to the ignorant masses. Source

Wrong, Reno Gazette Journal, a Flawed Climate Study Doesn’t Prove Future Desertification for Reno

Good science depends on testing assumptions against reality. Good journalism depends on questioning scientific claims before presenting them to the public as proven. In this case,...

The Scienceâ„¢ Strikes Again at the BMJ

Not THAT Science…

by Tom Stiglich at CDN - Click to read the rest HERE-> Not THAT Science… first posted at Conservative Daily News

Real Tragedy Is That Fauci Is a Bad Scientist

Think Robert Oppenheimer, if Robert Oppenheimer had built a bomb that didn't work.

This is one of the worst scientific papers I’ve ever seen.

A frequent commenter pointed me to this paper, “Sport and longevity: an observational study of international athletes.” All I can say is . . . Wow! This paper is an absolute clinic...

Elena Kagan gave bogus science a blind endorsement

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan’s testimony at a July Senate hearing raised troubling questions about accountability in judicial education.Kagan acknowledged that she wrote the f...

How bad data fuels MAGA criticism of Fauci and vaccines

“We tell pregnant women don’t even have glass of wine, and yet we coerced them, convinced them, sometimes mandated them to get an experimental gene therapy as early as the first tr...

A Story of Bad Science: How Defenders of Antidepressant Efficacy Make Their Case

Psychiatric leaders should be in jail because they knowingly spread falsehoods about psychiatric drugs that kill. The post A Story of Bad Science: How Defenders of Antidepressant E...

Manual for judges saying “How Science Works” is very wrong on climate science

This chapter on “How science works” is basically a misleading attempt to advance the false claim that there is a consensus supporting climate alarmism. As such, it is political adv...

Why the salty-Earth folks hate us - and especially hate science. There's even a (slightly) valid reason!

 Apologies for not posting in a while. Many aspects of life got in the way. That and resonance effects from my big new book about Artificial Intelligence AIlien Minds......and prep...

Elena Kagan Gave Bogus Science a Blind Endorsement

Endorsing a manual without examining its most contentious sections compromises due diligence. Fortunately, it is not too late to correct course. The Federal Judicial Center should...

Follow Science, New York Times, Coral’s Are Doing Well Amid Modest Climate Change

In the end, Glabicki and the New York Times went off half-cocked, reporting on a single study’s findings about coral reef conditions without checking them against other sources of...

Derek Lowe tells it like it is

 This. I'll give you some pull quotes but read it. The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes t...

A Study in Priors

There is a replication crisis in the medical literature. Nearly half of all positive trials, when repeated, do not produce a similar positive result.¹,² While many reasons have bee...

Journalism Can Help Expose Bad Science And Trigger Real-World Change, New Study Shows

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When Medical Science Refuses to Correct Itself

Science is supposed to be self-correcting. But what happens when the journals entrusted to uphold this principle become its gatekeepers? The post When Medical Science Refuses to Co...

Is Environmental Science Less Objective?

An analysis of the use of subjective language in scientific papers.

Um... AI, to a judge? Really?

Our fearless leader of HHS submitted an AI generated report to a judge... and the judge is not a happy camper.Judge Condemns RFK Jr’s HHS for Using Fake StudiesNewsweekBy Alice Gib...

Retraction Watch Reports on Designer Science Fiasco, but Mischaracterizes It

The headline is glaringly inaccurate. It says, “University press removes book about intelligent design for misquoting ID proponent.” Source

What Does Science Say When “the Science” Refuses to Speak?

The data from the COVID-19 pandemic must be objectively reviewed and defended. Invoking science means accepting responsibility for outcomes and interpretations of the results.

Sex definition: Science is not a political prop

Scientists Chris Pook...

Always Trust the Science? Researchers Learn Their Woolly Mammoth Backbone Actually Belonged to Whale

“Science” is not a monolithic set of truths that the general public should only eagerly await to be bestowed upon them by elites who supposedly know better. A more honest […] The p...