As I’ve said before, I don’t care if GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz doesn’t believe that human beings are causing climate change. It’s GM’s behavior that deserves our scorn, not the mental states of their ...

Physicist Kurt Gottfried was so alarmed by misuses of science in 1969, he said, that he helped create the Union of Concerned Scientists to place issues in the public spotlight and try to sway ...

Cereal Research Communications, Vol. 20, No. 3/4 (1992), pp. 287-293 (7 pages) Multiple range tests (MRT) were designed for comparing three or more treatments to determine which treatments are ...

Actress Alyssa Milano has now marshalled the Bible and science to support her pro-abortion position. Unfortunately, she is wrong on both accounts. The Bible and science, rightly understood, are ...

An exploration of the uses and misuses of probability in topics ranging from gambling to medicine to the likelihood of intelligent life beyond Earth will be discussed at the first installment of the ...

In many realms of science today, “statistical wisdom” seems to be in short supply. Misuse of statistics in scientific research has contributed substantially to the widespread “reproducibility crisis” ...

Encouraging debate while respecting science and avoiding oppression Recently, Psychology Today editors removed from their site a blog essay (not written by me) I won't even dignify by naming it, but ...

Today I'm working on updates to Chapter 9 of my book, which is divided up into sections about misuses of science to favor food industry interests and misuses of science to deny the dangers of mercury ...

The problems of the “precautionary principle” received a thorough airing from its critics at a December 12 forum sponsored by the George C. Marshall Institute, a Washington DC-based think tank ...