Having recently read Ben Goldacre’s book “Bad Science” I wished I’d thought of this brilliant idea from Tom Scott: Journalism Warning Labels http://www.tomscott.com/warnings/ I have been using the guidance in “Bad Science” to critically examine news media stories and cut through all the bullshit, and Scott’s idea makes it a lot more fun. Well done. [...]
I recognise that I do tend to rant rather more than rave on this blog. But I suppose it’s the injustices and idiocies of this world that get me all fired up. So, in order to address this imbalance, here’s some good news regarding the advancement of education. Dispatches from the Culture Wars reports that [...]
A Panda’s Thumb article “Why science literacy is in trouble” discusses how a Canadian Assistant Professor of Science Education (Katarin MacLeod, Assistant Professor in Science Education at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, NS) deliberately(?) misleads by, for example, stating that evolution is only a “theory” for which there is not much evidence otherwise it [...]
