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  • Settled Science: Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Krauthammer

    This article examines Charles Krauthammer’s claims that climate science and mammogram recommendations are based on science that is “not settled”. It questions what it is that conservatives like him wish to conserve, if not the environment and people’s health. Read more

  • Book Review: The Greatest Hoax by Sen. James Inhofe

    This article is a critical review of “The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future” by Senator James Inhofe. It examines several of the major ideas in the book and provides “the rest of the story”. Read more

  • Gaming the Peer Review System: Part 2. Exploiting Loopholes

    Spencer and Braswell published an article in Remote Sensing that claimed that carbon dioxide was not the cause of global warming, in opposition to accepted climate science. The paper was found to have significant errors, which were compounded by James Taylor at Forbes magazine when he sensationalized the article and presented his opinion of it… 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

  • 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