Every ramp-up to every election since blogging has been in existence has seen the blogosphere explode with the usual 'Republicans are anti-science' hype while whitewashing Democrats who do the same thing.This year is no different, though they feel legitimized because an anti-Republican pundit at the (shock) New York Times agrees - if Republican politicians are just as religious as Democrats (and...
read moreIn the 1980s, conservatives often sided with science while progressives demanded punitive actions regardless of benefit or even evidence of a detriment. Alar, for example, was a head scratcher for anyone outside the environmental movement but Meryl Streep was clearly a science authority and so the media put people in a panic.In the 2000s, the tables turned. Conservatives wanted...
read moreThings sure have changed now that a Democrat is in power. The New York Times, once proud to publish anything that might make Pres. George W. Bush look bad, has criticized WikiLeaks for publishing unredacted U.S. State Department cables, the kind of thing everyone there used to love printing.The change has been coming for a while. When the so-called ClimateGate scandal was happening,...
read moreHave a telescope? Heck, do you have a pair of binoculars?If so, head outside the city and take a look at a Type 1A supernova. It's 21 million light-years away, which sounds like a lot, but to astronomers and modern optics that's actually pretty close. So close that over the next few weeks you can even spy it with a pair of good binoculars (25x100), a short while after...
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