In this piece Richard Green, a past contributor to the blog, looks for the consensus on vaccine safety. Are you interested in writing about a science related topic? Then check out our information on becoming a guest writer. I’ve gone down…
Iida Ruishalme holds a M.Sc. in Biology from Sweden, has work experience from environmental chemistry, diabetes research, and pharmaceutical bio-bank labs. She lives in Switzerland where she writes both fiction and science. You can follow her at the blog Thoughtscapism….
Please welcome Dr. Leni Sorensen as our latest guest writer. She is a food historian and has also been the African American Research Historian at the International Center for Jefferson Studies (ICJS) at Monticello. In this article Leni explores the…
Stuart Hayashi has returned to the blog with a treatise on Nassim Taleb’s precautionary principle working paper. Stuart is a freelance writer based in Hawaii. He is the author of The Freedom of Peaceful Action: On the Origin of Individual…
What is some of the Scientific Literature that has Formed the Scientific Consensus on GMOs?
Skepti-Forum moderator PennyLane Hadley and Skepti-Forum blog contributor Robert Sacerich join forces to show how wrong Dr. Hyman is on Autism. This article was originally published at Rationality Unleashed! PennyLane also runs several other evidence based on-line forums: Healthy Skepticism, Parents…
Quantum, Please welcome our new guest writer Sadri Hassani. He is a professor emeritus of the Illinois State University’s Physics Department. Professor Hassani is especially focused on how some people use the weirdness of Quantum Theory to promote pseudoscience. Follow…
Science communication is more than relying on hunches and intuitions. To be an effective science communicator, one needs to base their understanding on scientific evidence. Here you will find a small sample of scientific research exploring science communication and social media.
The scientific community and its genetic engineers need to incubate more scientist/narrator hybrids. Scientists need public support, and before the public will support various science projects, the scientific community has to embrace story-telling and creative communication based on enthusiasm, understanding, and compassion. If the scientific community wants public support, scientists need to take sides on public science issues while employing charismatic communicators able to connect with people’s values. Scientists cannot remain isolated while expecting the public to embrace new research. Doing good work is not enough.
“There is no such thing as a skeptic. It is not something that someone is, but rather something someone does. People have moments of thinking skeptically, but no individual is always a skeptic. Skepticism is a continuous process of being aware of not only irrationality of others, but also one’s own internal biases.” ~Knigel Holmes
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