J.C. Moore Online

Current Events from a Science Perspective.

Science Education

  • Academic Freedom and Democracy – ALEC Style

    This article gives an example of how ALEC gets bills introduced into state law. Corporate members and legislative members meet to draft “model bills” that favors special interests more than that of the citizens of the respective states. ALEC has 501(C)(4)status as a charity, which makes it tax exempt and hides its motives and the… Read more

  • Aristotle's Contribution to Science, Education, and Physics

    Aristotle thought that Nature could best be understood by observation and reason and that all knowledge should be open to examination and subject to reason. Read more

  • Science Literacy and Religious Beliefs

    Scientific literacy cannot be measured by a litmus test such as belief in the BIg Bang or evolution theory. Doing so confuses knowledge with the persons beliefs. Read more

  • Bits and Pieces 1: Do Scientists Keep Secrets?

    Complaints about  “scientific secrecy” are disingenuous: There is very little secrecy in science. Scientific papers are presented and openly debated at meetings where anyone can attend. The peer reviewed papers include the data, the results, and the reasoning and are available at public libraries and many are now online. Also: Researchers are required to keep… Read more

  • Bits and Pieces

    This article contains short comments on issues related to climate science such as peer review, ocean acidification … Read more

  • Aristotle's Lessons from the Past

    “Aristotle gave us a universe whose laws are invariant and capable of being discovered by observation and reason.”  In ancient times, nature had been explained as the actions of the gods. The early Greek philosophers questioned the role of the gods as the cause of events and by the fifth century B.C. the Greek philosophers, such as… Read more