RT @DegreaseNeil: NASA presents new images with a stunning zoom over Pluto. This is the most detailed view of Pluto's terrain you'll see in… 1 year ago
I was able to get some photos of Comet NEOWISE through my telescope. The comet will be visible for the rest of the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 year ago
Book Review: “Sharing Reality – How to Bring Secularism and Science to an Evolving Religious World” tinyurl.com/ycyzzqk84 years ago
The Skeptics Society has retired Skepticblog (while preserving all posts online at their original urls for future reference), but we’re proud to announce our bigger, better new blog: INSIGHT at Skeptic.com! Dedicated to the spirit of curiosity and grounded in scientific skepticism’s useful, investigative tradition of public service, INSIGHT continues and exp […]
Some people say, "Oh, there's anti-science on both sides of the political aisle." But that neglects one important fact: in only ONE political party are the leadership and the party platform dominated by science denial.
Would you believe there is a patch of trapped garbage floating in the North Pacific bigger than the state of Texas? It's called the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch".
In a recent TED Talk Michael Specter, a science & technology journalist and author of “Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives”, expresses quite eloquently the dangers of buying into various forms of nonsense such as anti-vaccination, opposition to genetically-modified foods while embracing “organic food”, and alt-med herbal woo…
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