November 2010
2 posts
Congrats to Steve Silberman for winning 2010 AAAS... →
This is my favorite passage (it’s lower down):
In a media environment saturated with such blatant disinformation, it’s not only our job to report on the progress of science, it is our job to report on those who are working furiously — and with vast resources — to demean and diminish the role of science in our society by framing scientists as merely another special-interest group with...
Michael Mann compares climate change detractors to... →
Alex Witze did a great job covering this talk that Penn State climate scientist Michael Mann gave at the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing meeting on Sunday.
Here are a few other of his more pointed statements from that talk:
“No doubt we are in for a period over next months or even years where climate science is likely to be subject to the sort of politically motivated...