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Scientists and the economic crisis, ctd.

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Praj / 0 Comment

Via the Jack Stilgoe post I just discussed, Colin Macilwain exhorts scientists to deal with a world in crisis: Those involved in science policy sometimes seem t...

Communication/Literacy/Society/Special Interest/STS

Mixed feelings about science literacy outreach, part 2

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Praj / 1 Comment

As much as it annoys me, I can’t bring myself to complain too much about Marcelo Gleiser’s short essay: This shaping of our worldview is not restric...

Education/Literacy/Society

People are scary in a way that numbers are not

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Praj / 7 Comments

Two months ago TNC inveighed against reformers who depend solely on statistics to explain human motivations. They are blind to the possibility that changes lead...

Climate Change/Intelligent Design/Society

Politicians’ scientific beliefs, indicators, and cultural markers

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Praj / 3 Comments

Liberal bloggers have been attacking National Review’s Kevin Williamson for arguing politicians’ scientific beliefs don’t matter: Why would an...

Public Discourse/Society

Bias in scientists

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Praj / 0 Comment

Writing in the Times, Cordelia Fine justifies confirmation bias as a tool that facilitates discovery: Scientists are not immune. In another experiment, psycholo...

Public Discourse/Society/Values

Hypocrisy happens

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Praj / 8 Comments

Cogitating some more on “The Politics of Demarcation” by Paul Newall and Michael Pearl, I understand their dismay when scientists don’t stick ...

Philosophy/Society

Evolutionary psychology, demarcation, and grand unified theories

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Praj / 6 Comments

Last week evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa published the highly controversial “Why Black Women are Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women.&...

Public Discourse/Regulatory Science/Society/Values

Obama is a politician, not a philosopher

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Praj / 2 Comments

I’m glad to see Ryan Myer blogging again after a long break. His recent post does a typically good job dissecting the Obama administration’s ratchet...

Society/STS

The fallacy of attribution

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Praj / 5 Comments

I think, on some level, when we marvel at how the world has become more egalitarian, we think about King and Lincoln. But do we think about that changes relatio...

Philosophy/Society

Maybe the scientific method just isn’t that powerful

Posted on January 11, 2011 by Praj / 12 Comments

But now all sorts of well-established, multiply confirmed findings have started to look increasingly uncertain. It’s as if our facts were losing their truth: cl...

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