How Science Abuses Politics
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Patrick J. Michaels is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media.
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While politicians decry negative advertising and personal attacks, the bottom line is that such tactics often work.
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Your virtual candidate calling Comment Politicians long ago gave up on politics. Instead of articulating great ideas, the choice that faces voters today is between identikit managerial bureaucrats who've never had a job outside politics. Most of their adult lives have been spent in the hermetic world of wonkdom. So it's little wonder, then, that they have trouble distinguishing between fiction and reality.â¦
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Neuroscientists are making such rapid progress in unlocking the brain's secrets that some are urging colleagues to debate the ethics of their work before it can be misused by governments, lawyers or advertisers.
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A Washington-based think tank has been soliciting critiques of the just-released international assessment of the evidence on climate change, a move that prompted some academics and environmentalists to accuse the group of seeking to distort the latest evidence for global warming.
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In the run up to the US presidential election, the science journal Nature has put 15 questions on current science debates to both candidates.
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Science & environment: Experts welcome drop in unfounded claims, but gaffes still cause concern
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Sometimes Washington is more important than the laboratory.
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Ever wonder why fear-mongering seems to work so well at the pollsâwhile appeals to reason often leave the electorate cold? A new book applies neuroscience to politics to figure out why the Democrats struggle to push the buttons in voters' brains.
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Embryonic stem-cell research is polarizing America as much as George Bush and John Kerry. And the issue has become just as political.
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The leading international science journal Nature has focussed the US presidential election campaign on science by asking both President George Bush and Senator John Kerry for their views on the major issues.
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And for government to listen to advice... Minister for Innovation John Denham said the scientific community needs to improve its engagement with the public and that government needs to pay more attention to science when making policy.â¦
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A new brain imaging study shows that when people tell the truth and lie, they use different parts of their brains. Scientists are exploiting these brain changes to develop an imaging technique
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The Bush administration had an uneasy relationship with scientists during the first term. Will the president build bridges in the second or burn them completely? A Wired News special report.
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The post from World Health Organization researchers on the practice they call female genital mutilation (FGM) has prompted a couple of critical responses from other researchers. One is a comment from Richard Shweder of the University of Chicago, who calls it "bureaucratic boilerplate" and says it's further evidence that "identity politics has triumphed over science [...].
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The US presidential candidates address major scientific questions put to them by the journal Nature.
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Government figures obtained by the Tories show wide differences in who does separate science GCSEs.