Pop quiz. What year was this written? “Our once unchallenged pre-eminence in commerce, industry, science and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. … The educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity.” 2012? 2004? 2000? Try 1983. These days, it sounds as if things have been bad for decades...
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Here’s the latest incarnation of the upcoming book’s cover. The concept behind the image? “The distortion of the glass signals the distortion of science, the green represents environmental/progressive politics, and the whole image evokes a scientific experiment that’s been flung aside.” What do you think? Want to ensure you get a copy of the book once...
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Science Left Behind: Feel-Good Fallacies and the Rise of the Anti-Science Left Coming September 2012 from Public Affairs Books Available for pre-order on Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com Are conservatives anti-science? Pundits eagerly trot out the fact that many Republicans don’t believe in evolution, don’t believe in global warming, and dislike embryonic stem cell research. If...
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Why is it right for Americans to provide low-cost loans to its solar panel manufacturers, but when China does it, it is an illegal subsidy and demands tariffs in response? In an article featured on Forbes.com, Hank Campbell and Alex Berezow investigate the US policies that have led to the current boom in solar panel manufacturing – and why the surge has resulted in revenue growth for...
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It’s hard to say when scientists realized that policy makers were not always going to make the best decisions regarding science funding, but a safe bet would be somewhere before 3000 BC. In the intervening 5000 years, not a lot has changed in how well scientists, politicians and the public really understand each other. A week doesn’t go by when there isn’t an article lamenting that one...
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