Joseph Simonson of the Washington Free Beacon writes about two federal agencies’ embrace of a dubious theory. The Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could…
In a recent Spectator article called “Lying with science: a guide to myth debunking,” Matt Ridley begins by observing that, “Pseudoscience is on the rise – and the media is completely…
Today, an article in the local daily on subsidized housing for working, middle-class citizens mentioned in passing Asheville City Council members’ heroic efforts to prevent electromagnetic fields from a substation…
Among the many interesting articles in National Review‘s 60th anniversary issue is “Rational Optimist” Matt Ridley‘s critique of the science used to perpetuate climate alarmism. … [B]ecause this catastrophe is…
Rupert Darwall writes for National Review Online about inappropriate use of the historical record on global warming predictions. Although Americans have been subjected to incessant warnings about global warming for…
Thomas Donlan‘s latest editorial commentary for Barron’s asks fundamental questions about the nature of economics. Most economics experiments are nonconclusive and nonrepeatable. For example, does an increase in the sales…
Jonah Goldberg‘s latest National Review Online column examines the scientific proof that conservatives’ brains can’t handle the brilliance of liberal arguments. Over the past decade, a new fad has taken…
If the pen is mightier than the sword, it’s certainly just as dangerous. So argues BenjaminWiker in his book Ten Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That…
There are terms for what you describe, George: pseudoscience, a Procrustean bed, but most definitely not science.
The Holistic Expo was held in Carrborro yesterday. Visitors were treated with vendors hyping copper pentaspheres that turns your negative chi into positive chi, titanium and germanium bracelets that improve…
Global warming is a Procrustean bed: everything fits the theory, and anything that doesn’t will either be stretched till it fits or chopped till it fits. It’s pseudoscience. It’s not…
The scare du jour now seems to be cellphones killing off bees: It seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But some scientists suggest that our love…