Regulation
Scientific ignorance loves regulation, revisited
It's easy for polls to find people in support of highly restrictive safety regulations, even outright bans, on things that sound scary to them, if they don't stop to think…
Scientific literacy
Liberty
Help. Just. Help.
Disclaimer: Fresh air and water are good, and pollution is bad. Claimer: We need science literacy. A retired Appalachian State University professor is starting the Boone chapter of Citizens’ Climate…
Regulation
Scientific ignorance loves regulation
Here’s a human tendency it’s important to be mindful of when news media trumpet that some large supermajority of people polled want a restrictive safety regulation. (It’s also important to…
Energy
Boosting nuclear literacy among elementary school students
Even kids who live relatively close to Wake County’s Shearon Harris nuclear power plant have little knowledge about the plant and how it works. That’s a shame, according to Amelia…
Liberty
Stossel takes his media colleagues to task
In a column headlined “First, the bad news,” John Stossel explains why it’s a bad idea to base your viewpoints and decisions on media reports. We in the media rarely…
Liberty
Skeptics and alarmists close to a tie on scientific literacy
View in your browser. Weekly John Locke Foundation research division newsletter focusing on environmental issues. The newsletter highlights relevant analysis done by the JLF and other think tanks as well…
Liberty
Obama invents his own science on pollution and asthma
Speaking at a townhall event in VA today President Obama claimed that emissions from coal fired power plants cause asthma. There’s one problem–there’s no science to back the claim. While…
Liberty
Eco-terrorism: Sandwich bag gets boy excluded from class contest
Courtesy of the National Post, A couple in Laval, Que[bec] has sparked a fierce debate over how far schools should go to teach children about environmental responsibility after their six-year-old…
Liberty
What about bad climate science?
There?s something especially funny about Newsweek?s Sharon Begley writing a column urging science educators to do more to help students detect bad science. Might such enhanced instruction have saved Begley…
Liberty
Top 10 Scientifically Inaccurate Movies
Yahoo! unveils a pretty good list of action and science fiction movies that play fast and loose with scientific facts. I enjoyed their thorough beat-down of The Day After Tomorrow…
Liberty
It’s easy to trick people into agreeing to ban a Scary Sounding Chemical
Penn and Teller pull a fast one here. Funny but instructive (PG-13 language): Longtime CJ readers may remember that in 1998, a campus poll conducted by students for N.C. State’s…