April 24, 2010
Written by: Dick Hanneman
During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate Obama complained about how scientists and policymakers in the George W. Bush Administration were perverting the free expression of science. While our choice of examples may have differed, we were in hearty agreement that...
April 22, 2010
Written by: Dick Hanneman
Last fall, New Yorker science writer and former NY Times correspondent Michael Specter released an important book entitled Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens our Lives. In the NY Times book review, Janet Maslin captured the essence his...
April 9, 2010
Written by: Dick Hanneman
Data may be just another "four letter word" to some. And for some advocates, data gets in the way of a good story. That's what's been happening as evidence unfolds about the bogus "salt hypothesis" where blood pressure-based computer modeling...
