Asseverations and Ejaculations
The manipulation of attitudes
[This is the final section of the book. I will return to the section on neurobiology and religion later.] The backfire effect If science is…
I wrote in my last links page, “Martin Robbins at the Guardian blog site spoofed science journalism with a “meta” entry. Here, he explains why and what to draw from it.”
A scientist friend asked me my opinion. Never one to hold back, and as readers know, I have a certain distaste for the very industry of journalism, I responded thus:
… even if it probably isn’t At a television news station, one of the employees put up a sign in the elevator: “The ‘7’ button…
Australia doesn’t have lunatics of the calibre of the white supremacist Glenn Beck, at least, not on the media, but we have sufficient punditry to…
I just saw the movie Creation, with Paul Bettany as Darwin and Jennifer Connelly (Bettany’s real life wife) as Emma Darwin. And I am very…
So, we have a woman PM. I’m not particularly impressed by that – we should have had equal representation in the Parliament thirty years ago…
This, from SBS World News, a usually relatively reliable public news service in Australia, on their report on the new hominid. I sent them this…
Carl Zimmer has a continually updated blog post on the mtDNA of “X-Woman”, which is being informed by his readers and experts. It’s a useful…
Carl Zimmer has a continually updated blog post on the mtDNA of “X-Woman”, which is being informed by his readers and experts. It’s a useful…
