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- Why forensic science is failing us http://boingboing.net/2012/10/17/why-forensic-science-is-failin.html 11 comments law
- Facts, science, and truth failed int the US yesterday, with ~67mil dismissing the pandemic, economy, climate change, and the hope of a healthy living/working environment. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03120-8 23 comments politics
- US failed to inspect at-risk oil wells: Accountability report damns weak oversight and outdated science, though staff and budget cuts limit ability to monitor fracking http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/11/fracking-gas-wells-inspections-government-failure-rules 22 comments politics
- India's Minister for Earth Sciences: “It’s not just another unusually hot summer, it is climate change. Let us not fool ourselves that there is no connection between the unusual number of deaths from the ongoing heat wave and the certainty of another failed monsoon.” http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/climate-change-is-stalling-monsoon-harsh-vardhan/article7276252.ece 91 comments worldnews
- DiCaprio calls out Trump, world leaders on climate change: "Our future is being gambled away, and our leaders, those whom we entrust to protect us and set the example, are either failing to stop these dangerous trends or, in some cases, denying the very science of this climate catastrophe" https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/463598-leonardo-dicaprio-calls-out-trump-world-leaders-on-climate 24 comments environment
- DiCaprio calls out Trump, world leaders on climate change: "Our future is being gambled away, and our leaders, those whom we entrust to protect us and set the example, are either failing to stop these dangerous trends or, in some cases, denying the very science of this climate catastrophe" https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/463598-leonardo-dicaprio-calls-out-trump-world-leaders-on-climate 786 comments worldnews
- Science AMA Series: We're a social scientist & physical scientist who just launched Evidence Squared, a podcast on the science of why science fails to persuade. Ask Us Anything! https://twitter.com/johnfocook/ 426 comments science
- Based on a comprehensive survey of science teachers at middle and high schools across the US, a new study finds that we are failing students when it comes to both the quantity and quality of climate change education, with many teachers continuing to “teach the controversy” https://www.newscientist.com/article/2077167-hey-us-science-teachers-leave-those-climate-myths-alone/ 12 comments science
- Over the past few decades, growing evidence from cognitive science has revealed significant limits on the ability of individuals to criticize their own viewpoints. Even the most analytically gifted and experienced among us are susceptible to bias and self-deception to an extent that we (ironically enough) generally fail to appreciate. http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2007/09/scientific_literacy_and_the_ha.php?utm_source=seedmag-main&utm_medium=rss&page=2 26 comments science