USA Today features a Boston Consulting Group report on America’s waning lead in industrial innovation. We’re still investing in and churning out more basic and applied research…
Tag: science
In his dubious and futile attempt to restore coal mining jobs (which declined far more precipitously under Reagan/Bush than they did under Obama), Donald Trump also seeks less…
NPR’s social science feature on today’s Morning Edition discussed research showing that people who practice a ritual, even newly learned, seemingly meaningless ritual, show more trust for people who perform…
GOP spin blogger Pat Powers cares so much about autism that he’s willing to advocate big government intrusion in the marketplace to make sure his…
Earth Day is coming and so are the Marches for Science! On Saturday, April 22, believers in science, logic, and facts (that should be all of…
Will House Education pass science this morning, or will they pass Senate Bill 55? Senator Jeff Monroe is trying for the fourth year in a row…
The cast of characters testifying for Senate Bill 55 Wednesday supports my thesis that Senator Jeff Monroe’s bill purporting to “protect the teaching of certain scientific…
To resist, we must remember. On the same day that the Trump White House brought the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines back from the…
Senator Jeff Monroe (R-24/Pierre) throws the first belch of the radical right-wing caucus into the hopper with his fourth attempt to wedge his anti-science agenda into science…
Among Donald Trump’s counterproductive, Archie-Bunkeresque proposals is the idea of stopping NASA from studying the Earth. We can’t effectively study the universe and search for other planets that could support life…