Bill Nye Unweaves the Rainbow—and Undersells Science
by Leah Libresco SargeantI’m pretty sure I’m in the target audience for Bill Nye’s new show—but it's breaking my heart. Continue Reading »
The Real “Anti-Science”
by Wesley J. SmithWhen Bill Nye the Science Guy complains of a war being waged on science, he should look in the mirror. Continue Reading »
Al Gore’s Holy Anger
by John MurdockAl Gore’s persona has been polarizing enough to help make climate change one of the most politicized topics of the day—turning even “science” itself into something of a wedge issue. Continue Reading »
Creation Careless
by John MurdockWhen will we have a chance to piece back together a conservatism and a Christian worldview with something edifying to say about all of creation? Continue Reading »
The Pontifical Academies’ Mess of Pottage
by Michael PakalukThe Pontifical Academies inviting abortion-promoting overpopulation alarmist Paul Erhlich amounts to formal cooperation in serious evil. And the scandal is not only moral, but scientific. Erhlich is a laughably bad scientist. Continue Reading »
We See Through a Sonogram, Darkly
by Leah Libresco SargeantIf we feel stymied by the imprecision of sonograms and other tools for looking inside the bodies of others, we should feel at least as frightened by the fallibility of our own wills, and the unreliable view they give us of the souls of others. Continue Reading »
Laboratory Limits that are not Limits
by Chuck DonovanLaboratory researchers have been able to extend the time they can keep a human embryo alive in the lab from nine days to 13 days. Now many are asking, “Why not go beyond the 14-day-post-fertilization limit that has governed this research to date?” Why, indeed? If the embryonic human being—in . . . . Continue Reading »
Scientific Regress
by William A. WilsonThe problem with science is that so much of it simply isn’t. Last summer, the Open Science Collaboration announced that it had tried to replicate one hundred published psychology experiments sampled from three of the most prestigious journals in the field. Scientific claims rest on the idea that . . . . Continue Reading »
You Are Not an Ape
by Wesley J. SmithPedro Pozas, a Spanish animal-rights activist, made international headlines in 2006 when he declared, “I am an ape.” Pozas was speaking as an advocate for the Great Ape Project (GAP), the brainchild of Princeton utilitarian bioethicist Peter Singer and Italian animal-rights philosopher Paola . . . . Continue Reading »
Scientists Explain the Origins of Religion
by Russell E. SaltzmanI’d say, after reading this essay, we can just sleep in next Sunday. We now have a scientific excuse to stay home and pull the covers up: the origins of religion. It opens by asking what role religion still “plays in today’s American society.” Wait, you may ask. What does religion . . . . Continue Reading »
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