Of the Creation Persuasion
This article was originally published on Scientific American The Earth is flat. A full moon leads to more crime. Humans …
Category Archives: Communicating Science
“The Unbelievable Time Required to Cover Immense Distances of Space”-1918
Check out this awesome bit of science communication from 1918: And the only thing cooler than how they thought spaceships …
Bill Nye is Not a Businessman
This post originally appeared on Scientific American Bill Nye, the nerdy supernova that fostered my childhood love of science, has …
Bill Nye, Creationism, and Science Communication
Science educator and communicator Bill Nye has recently appeared in a video arguing the reasons why creationism should not be …
How Should We Argue For Vaccination?
I have excerpted my latest essay for the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) below. In it I take a look …
A Checklist for Reading Science News
Guidelines for Science News Science news is a different animal. You can’t trust “he said, she said” news, the kind …
Big News: The Newest JREF Research Fellow
I can finally and officially announce that the James Randi Educational Foundation has recently appointed me their newest research fellow …
Communicating Science: The Difference Between Science and Common Sense
A Poor Master One of the strongest features of science is that it can correct our seriously flawed cognition and …
Celebrities and politicians are confused about science
Over at Scientific American we have a list of a number of public admissions of scientific illiteracy that I thought …
Thinking Scientifically
This post can also be found for further reference at the top of every SBL page. Why Do We Need …
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