Study Finds Almost 40 Percent of People in Eight European Nations Would Like to Live "in a World Where Chemical Substances Don't Exist"
Such scientific ignorance is common in th US as well, and can have a harmful influence on government policy.
Such scientific ignorance is common in th US as well, and can have a harmful influence on government policy.
Environmental Protection Agency
Congress wants to know if the agency is strengthening transparency or silencing science.
People are happier, healthier, and wealthier because freer markets have opened the floodgates of innovation, research, and development.
The result is consistent with lots of other evidence of widespread ignorance and bias influencing public opinion on political and scientific issues.
Academic publishers are "still acting as if the internet doesn't exist," says Michael Eisen, co-founder of the Public Library of Science.
Environmental Protection Agency
Scott Pruitt blocks EPA-funded researchers from serving on the agency's advisory boards.
It would be ridiculous for the Trump Administration to try to suppress it now.
Do researchers risk becoming just another leftwing interest group?
Another update on the 'settled science' of climate change
The new report appears to be a parting gift to anti-fracking activists from the Obama administration.
Wikileaks reveals how activists orchestrated a campaign to silence climate researcher Roger Pielke Jr.
Massie hasn't met with anyone from the Trump transition team.
Compare his answers with Clinton, Trump, and Stein over at ScienceDebate.org
"Science isn't self-correcting, it's self-destructing."
"Science, the pride of modernity, our one source of objective knowledge, is in deep trouble."
Are the Democrats really the Party of Science?
If not for Federal Aviation Administration meddling in supersonic flight innovation, we could zip around the world in a fraction of the time.
No mandatory GMO labels, no energy subsidies, open Yucca Mountain, encourage thorium reactors, etc.
What did 'climate hero' James Hansen actually predict back in 1986?
Libertarian Party presidential candidate scores pretty well.
Climate change, GMOs, Yucca Mountain, vaccination, fetal pain, evolution, and Ebola
More, better, and safer food - but only if regulators will stay out of the way.
Comparing his scores on seven science policy topics to Cruz, Rubio, and Bush
A debate over biotechnology previews the regulatory innovation that could stop innovation
A scitech research and policy round up for January 7, 2016
A scitech research and policy roundup for January 6, 2016
A scitech research and policy round up for January 5, 2016
I'm a bioethicist, and I am here to help slow down scientific and medical progress
Agency still treats consumers like idiots
Why privilege solar over all the other technologies, including some that may not even be invented yet?
$28 billion in research funding wasted every year.
Is life better than death; health better disease; wealth better than poverty? Opinions vary.
Environmental activists favor secret science
Testing company 23andMe expresses its gratitude
Disinformation specialists are everywhere
Why there will not be a global climate change treaty in 2015
In a thoughtful new book, a philosopher ponders the potential pitfalls of artificial intelligence.
Will China and the rest of the world follow our lead or take a free ride?