Are you sick of politicians making decisions based on their irrational beliefs and not on science. Well, so are scientists. A group of ‘em recently took a crash course on electoral politics. The goal? Running for office.
Science has become a part of every major issue of modern life, said neurologist Alan Leshner, president of the [...]

Yesterday I stumbled across an opinion column by Lee Cary that dissects Barak Obama’s science “priorities.”
While I do think that, in a very short period of time, private enterprise is going to usurp government access to space, that time has not yet arrived. We need to close the gap between the Shuttle and Orion, not [...]

I’ll probably get hate mail again accusing me of being pro-drug abuse, but here’s a press release:
Study Confirms Medical Marijuana Pain Relief
University of California Clinical Trial Shows Relief of Neuropathic Pain, Mild Side Effects
DAVIS, CALIFORNIA — A clinical trial conducted at the University of California at Davis and just published online by the Journal of [...]

The only thing that surprised me about this collection of bad reporting about science is that there aren’t any articles about how mercury in vaccines cause autism. Here’s the drawback of so-called “objective” journalism: It means that one guy with a mimeograph machine in his basement is to be treated with the same respect as [...]