Monthly Archives: February 2012

The plot does what it always does: Gleick recently joined the board of NCIS National Center for Science Education. This is an organization devoted to insisting that evolution be forcefed in schools from K-12 and no hint of Intelligent Design or anything that could conceivably lead to a mere hint of it make its way […]

The whole world is conspiring against us, creating the new, the different,the improved, and sometimes the buy it now or you can’t ever get it again, the temporary opportunity to give away our money in exchange for stuff. Why on earth do we need a dozen new flavors of soda, 23 brands of drier softener, […]

What if they’re wrong? Kuhn describes very well the build-up of evidence that ultimately leads to the over-turning of accepted orthodoxy within the scientific community, of some particular theory. But AGW is intrinsically wrapped up with political ideology and, increasingly, with economics and government (cf. “Solyndra”). The only apt comparison I can think of is […]