Politics drive political decisions
“It is absolutely essential that the negotiators get a continuous and repeated exposure to the science of climate change,” Pachauri told Reuters in ...
Category: Politicization
Political action and the miseducation of scientists
From David Roberts: You’ll be shocked to hear that Socolow, who spends his life in a world of ideas and explanations, concludes that the answer is better ...
Anti-science vs. epistemic closure in climate science denial
I’ve finally decided I can’t claim to write about science and politics without actually writing about science and politics. People want to make gene...
Misplaced obsession with ranking anti-science behavior
Chris Mooney got a bit upset when Alan Berezow claimed “for every anti-science Republican that exists, there is at least one anti-science Democrat”:...
The futility of improving democratic discourse
I’ve spent a lot of time with my head in the 19th century, and one thing that is immediately clear is that real argument has not replaced vicious name-cal...
Science and politics
Via Roger, Nature has an interesting article on the the apparent muzzling of government scientists at various agencies. Some of the stories are a bit troubling...
Science and politics
The always insightful Ta-Nehisi Coates criticized Adrian Fenty for sloppy campaigning in his recent loss in the DC Democratic primary (emphasis added): I think ...
Climate change dust-up
A recent paper in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has caused quite a stir. The authors use citation counts to try prove “the relative...
Disunity yet again plus impolite scientists
A couple quick points. First, check out Joe Romm’s post on this recent Times article. Apparently most meteorologists neither have training in climate sc...
A mild defense of Chris Mooney’s war on science
David Bruggeman recently attacked Chris Mooney yet again for promoting the war on science meme: the concept is meaningless, incoherent, oversimplified, etc. D...