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...
Month: June 2010
Scientific thinking yet again
My friend I-Chant had a sharp response to my last post: Geez, Praj, you have never been trained as a psychologist, yet you know about going to PsycInfo, using s...
No evidence for scientific thinking
This Eugene Robinson column garnered some attention on my Facebook wall. Here’s the offending passage: We can all applaud Chu’s accomplishment. But here’...
Exaggerating the benefits of science
Over at Adapt Already Ryan Meyer highlights a recent Times article about the disappointing output from the Human Genome Project. In typical fashion scientists ...
Kitcher on global warming
Philosopher Philip Kitcher just reviewed several books on climate change in Science magazine. I meant to get to this earlier, but Ben Hale got there first and ...