- How to Debate a Science Denier https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-debate-a-science-denier/ 72 comments science
- Debating on actuarial vs computer science careers. https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/5wuz82/debating_on_actuarial_vs_computer_science_careers/ 11 comments compsci
- 85% of Americans Want a Presidential Debate on Science http://richarddawkins.net/article,2571,n,n 5 comments reddit.com
- 85% of Americans Want a Science Debate http://sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=33 4 comments reddit.com
- Call for a Presidential Debate on Science http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2007/10/call_for_a_presidential_debate.html 28 comments science
- Let There Be Science in the Gun Debate http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/15/let-there-be-science-in-the-gun-debate.html 10 comments politics
- Tennessee science bill protects teachers who allow debate over evolution http://www.tennessean.com/article/20120320/news0201/303200034/tn-science-bill-protects-teachers-who-allow-debate-over-evolution?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7Cfrontpage 18 comments politics
- Anthropologists Debate Whether 'Science' Is a Part of Their Mission http://chronicle.com/article/anthropologists-debate-whether/125571/ 7 comments science
- Texas science education debate over - but the win is a loss http://www.examiner.com/x-2430-science-examiner~y2009m3d27-texas-science-education-debate-over--but-the-win-is-a-loss 11 comments science
- Hold a Presidential Debate on Science http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/12/13/sciencedebate2008/ 17 comments politics
- Let's Have a Presidential Debate on Science and Technology http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/ 28 comments science
- Bad science: Some numbers in abortion debate just can't be relied on http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/oct/27/1 5 comments science
- EPA’s Scott Pruitt wants to set up opposing teams to debate climate change science https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/06/07/epas-scott-pruitt-wants-to-set-up-opposing-teams-to-debate-climate-change-science/ 16 comments politics
- There was a gross misunderstanding of basic science during the GOP debate http://fusion.net/story/179457/huckabee-says-dna-schedule-bad-science/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialshare&utm_content=desktop+top 16 comments politics
- Trump admin puts EPA climate science debate plan ‘on hold’ http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/365104-trump-admin-puts-epa-climate-science-debate-plan-on-hold 5 comments politics
- 'Actually, There Is Not a Lot of Debate': Sanders Forced to Correct Trump Nominee on Climate Science http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/17/actually-there-not-lot-debate-sanders-forced-correct-trump-nominee-climate-science 903 comments politics
- Senate bill would allow teachers to cover what sponsors say is debatable science. Senator says it's a matter of critical thinking. Scientists say: Here we go again. http://www.jconline.com/story/opinion/columnists/dave-bangert/2015/01/20/evolution-science-back-bills-cross-hairs/22064443/ 4 comments politics
- Fetal pain is a lie: How phony science took over the abortion debate http://www.salon.com/2013/08/07/fetal_pain_is_a_lie_how_phony_science_took_over_the_abortion_debate/ 97 comments politics
- Kentucky's new science standards draw heated debate http://www.thespectrum.com/viewart/20130726/faith/307260010/kentucky-s-new-science-standards-draw-heated-debate 3 comments politics
- Christopher Monckton challenges Al Gore to a Debate. "(I know the science) Al Gore, Bless his little cotton socks, does not!" http://fora.tv/2009/12/17/foratv_exclusive_interview_with_lord_monckton_at_cop15#fullprogram 80 comments worldnews
- Podcast: Philip Goff and David Papineau Debate - 'Can Science Explain Consciousness?' http://thepanpsycast.com/panpsycast2/2017/7/30/episode-25 6 comments philosophy
- I must bring you news of a credible, if somewhat cheerless, theory about how science advances. It is not through reason and rational debate that it creeps forward, but by death. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/anjana_ahuja/article3110928.ece 4 comments science
- CNN hosted a "debate" on climate science between Bill Nye and an industry-funded misinformer http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/12/05/cnn-gives-climate-change-denial-a-platform/191686 64 comments politics
- Why Obama & Romney should debate on science issues. We need to talk about what really matters to U.S. competitiveness. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/07/19/obama-romney-science-debate-why-it-matters/ 4 comments politics
- David MacKay, Cambridge science Professor, applies actual science and common sense to the sustainable/renewable energy debate with this book. If you can look past the ugly index page. http://www.withouthotair.com/ 11 comments science
- Peter Navarro Attacked Fauci in Heated Situation Room Debate Over Science of Trump-Touted Drug, Report Says https://www.thedailybeast.com/navarro-attacked-fauci-in-heated-situation-room-debate-over-trump-touting-hydroxychloroquine-report-says?ref=home 26 comments politics
- How to debate a science denier, as suggested by a new study in Nature Human Behaviour (n = 1,773), which shows that marshaling facts (topic rebuttal) and identifying an opponent’s rhetorical techniques (technique rebuttal) are effective at dampening a skeptic’s message. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-debate-a-science-denier/?t=au 21 comments science
- Here’s what science is learning about how cannabis kills cancer cells.One of the most radical—and controversial—claims currently being made is that cannabis kills cancer cells. This claim is part of a much larger debate about whether or not cannabis has any medical properties. http://healthandhumanbody.net/cannabis-still-wonderingyes-or-no-watch-what-happens-when-cannabis-oil-is-injected-into-cancer-cells/ 14 comments science
- The Republican Party Has Literally Become the Party of Stupid | "..even at a point anymore where we’re debating how to fix the problems that science, history, reality and math show us are real; instead, we’re still having to debate people who don’t even believe in science, history, reality or math." http://www.forwardprogressives.com/republican-party-literally-become-party-stupid/ 1184 comments politics
- The country’s sinking climate debate - But Republicans later embraced a strategy of rote opposition to President Obama, and a faction that rejects the science of global warming dragged the GOP into irresponsible head-in-the-sand-ism. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-countrys-sinking-climate-debate/2014/08/24/d4d4aeca-29ff-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html 15 comments politics
- Looks like Bill's at it again; “ 'Meet the Press' to host climate change 'debate' between GOP’s Marsha Blackburn and Bill Nye 'the Science Guy' " http://www.salon.com/2014/02/14/meet_the_press_to_host_climate_change_debate_between_republican_marsha_blackburn_and_kids_show_host_bill_nye_the_science_guy/ 15 comments science
- Editor's File: Not all facts are created equal: Honest debate on climate — or any topic — requires reasonable arguments | It would have been wrong for this newspaper to equate such "facts" with the real science behind fluoridation. We believe the same is true in the debate over climate change http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=/20140209/opinion/402090303/-1/news 5 comments politics
- Let's be honest – the global warming debate isn't about science. The scientific evidence on human-caused global warming is clear. Opposition stems from politics, not science. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/oct/04/global-warming-debate-not-about-science 705 comments politics
- Settled Science-the Climate Change Debate is Over. Just as it is no longer logical to doubt the science explaining nicotine addiction and cancer risk from cigarettes, we have now reached the same point on climate change. The science itself is no longer in doubt. That debate is over. http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/at-the-edge/2013/09/24/settled-science 9 comments science
- School science is hotly debated in Kentucky: Matt Singleton, a Baptist minister in Louisville who runs an Internet talk-radio program, called teachings on evolution a lie that has led to drug abuse, suicide and other social affliction http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?aid=2013307220132 9 comments politics
- Is it time for a mass resignation of Tenn. science teachers? ‘Monkey Bill’ likely to pass in Tennessee, open creationism debate in schools: National Post. http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/09/tennessee-likely-to-pass-monkey-bill-open-creationism-debate-in-schools/ 5 comments science
- Congratulations on the new mods - that kind of experience with science will come handy! However long before getting into science debates can we all now agree that 'get fucked' and 'sack of shit' are not to be tolerated around here? http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/f2g0t/global_precipitation_levels_hit_new_high_in_2010/c1ct43t 8 comments science
- Does anyone else miss the days when these were the only subreddits available when reddit seemed less about jokes and memes and was more a place for discourse, debate, and learning new and interesting things especially of those related to science and programming? http://web.archive.org/web/20070915073525/sub.reddit.com/ 5 comments reddit.com
- Has anyone else been reading the "Bayesians vs Connectionists" (Griffiths et al vs McClelland et al) debate in the latest Trends in Cognitive Science with great interest? http://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/current 18 comments cogsci
- We are apparently going to let the debate on [climate] science run until hell freezes over. If you can't accept the conclusions of 98% of scientists whose FIELD IT IS, then why even bother with science? If that high a percentage is to be discounted ENTIRELY, then we are in deep trouble... http://blog.washingtonpost.com/tomtoles/2010/08/friday_rant_heat_exhaustion_e.html 1142 comments science