One of the worst political cop outs I have to listen too is “We have to accept the scientific advice”. “We did this because the scientists told us we had to”. Ministers all too readily resort to this line of argument on vexatious matters like genetically modified

It’s Science Pogrom Week. Yesterday, the Independent cranked up a front-page splash claiming that 400 academics were calling upon the Science Museum to cancel workshops being held this week promoting Israeli scientific achievements to schoolchildren. This was a reference to the 400 or so individuals who signed a letter to the Guardian last month screeching about the indiscriminate slaug...

It is their doom-laden political outlook that really convinces greens the world is ending, not scientific evidence.

The BBC struggled this morning with the Royal Chemistry Society’s Report claiming that modern science students at 16 do not have anything like the mathematical and scientific grounding their parents and grandparents had if they studied the O level syllabus. They accepted the evidence that the brightest modern

Several environmental NGOs have written to the European Commission President, José Manuel Barroso, demanding action on five scientific studies that question the clean energy benefits of biofuels, as a row over a land use report by the EU's scientific advisors escalates. More »

Government science and innovation investment received a major boost yesterday with the announcement of a joint venture that will see the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus develop into one of the world’s principal locations for scientific, academic and business collaboration.

Political expediency "rules the roost" over scientific advice, one of the latest government drug advisers to resign tells the BBC.

European policymakers face a difficult choice when authorising new technologies such as GMOs, as they often find themselves caught between conflicting expert safety advice and calls to respect the precautionary principle when scientific evidence is insufficient.

Anyone who’s passionate about science, as I am, cannot help but be seriously concerned by the growing extent to which anti-scientific ideas, and the groups and organisations that promote them, are increasingly creeping into public life and attracting mainstream political support. While it’s easy to ridicule the purveyors of anti-scientific ideas when they’re to be found

Liberal Conspiracy has a good article up from Unity in response to the Schools Minister Sarah McCarthy-Fry's comments on the lack of schoolgirls opting to study sciences. He points out that science is science and that there really is no such thing as the 'girl-friendly' science that the Minister would like schools to teach. The scientific method is important and that requires a certain degree of r...