What is “science” communication?
According to Thompson-Reuters, eight-thousand and seventy-three science and engineering journals published just over one million peer-reviewed articles in 2010....
Category: Disunity
Another call for disunity and heterogeneity
To clarify why I found Williamson’s and Rosenberg’s definition of naturalism so unsatisfying, let’s look at the former’s definition of t...
Miscellaneous hodge-podge
Not just a hodge-podge, but a miscellaneous hodge-podge. Here’s what I’ve been reading: 1. A critique of the medical revolution by Emily Yoffe in ...
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...
The “scientific” consensus of climate change
Joe Romm recently highlighted the large number of organizations that think man-made global warming is a danger. Romm apparently hopes to bolster the case for g...
The disunity of science and the denial of climate change
You often hear individual scientists preaching about “how science works.” While I think outreach is generally a good thing, I am not sure we should...