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Category: Politicization

Climate Change/Politicization

Politics drive political decisions

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Praj / 0 Comment

“It is absolutely essential that the negotiators get a continuous and repeated exposure to the science of climate change,” Pachauri told Reuters in ...

Academia/Politicization

Political action and the miseducation of scientists

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Praj / 1 Comment

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 ...

Climate Change/Politicization

Anti-science vs. epistemic closure in climate science denial

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Praj / 4 Comments

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...

Politicization

Misplaced obsession with ranking anti-science behavior

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Praj / 2 Comments

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”:...

Politicization/Public Discourse

The futility of improving democratic discourse

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Praj / 1 Comment

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...

Politicization

Science and politics

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Praj / 2 Comments

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...

Communication/Politicization/Society

Science and politics

Posted on September 29, 2010 by Praj / 0 Comment

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/Politicization

Climate change dust-up

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Praj / 5 Comments

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...

Academia/Climate Change/Disunity/Politicization

Disunity yet again plus impolite scientists

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Praj / 6 Comments

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...

Politicization/STS

A mild defense of Chris Mooney’s war on science

Posted on February 11, 2010 by Praj / 7 Comments

David Bruggeman recently attacked Chris Mooney yet again for promoting the war on science meme:  the concept is meaningless, incoherent, oversimplified, etc.  D...

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