this is a guest post by Yasmin Khan In a recent blog entry I alluded to the prospect of utilizing science diplomacy to help promote world peace. Following President Barack Obama’s ground-breaking speech in Cairo, it now seems that dormant rhetoric will soon be put into imminent action. Intentions to support scientific initiatives in the Islamic

An interesting study for those who (as I am) are interested in the reasons why people hold different political views has been published in the latest issue of Science. People who react more strongly to bumps in the night, spiders on a human body or the sight of a shell-shocked victim are more likely to support public policies that emphasize protecting society over preserving individual privacy. - ...

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

Science has been 'reduced to a political bargaining chip' says a report calling for extensive Whitehall reforms to put independent scientific advice at the heart of government

The use of the English libel laws to silence critical discussion of medical practice and scientific evidence discourages debate, denies the public access to the full picture and encourages use of the courts to silence critics. The British Chiropractic Association has sued Simon Singh for libel. The scientific community would have preferred that it had

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...

Surely not? He doesn't know any recent science. His doctorate must be nearly forty years old, and that constitutes the sum total of his specifically scientific efforts. In the meantime, he has just churned out the same book and set of articles over and over again. They are not about science, and they are incompetent in their field. A friend of mine who was lectured by Dawkins at Oxford a decade ag...

Barack Obama has announced that physicist John Holdren and marine biologist Jane Lubchenco will take up two of the top scientific posts under his administration. John Holdren will be Executive Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the president’s science adviser. Jane Lubchenco will be in charge at the National Oceanic

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.

In an important paper published on Ecoworld, Robert Lindzen, Professor of Atmospheric Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, takes stock of scientific misconduct with regard to climate hysteria: Climate Science: Is It Currently Designed To Answer Questions? [W]hat historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenti...