Article: Research on antipodes detailed by scientists at University of Wisconsin.

Article: PROBLEMS PLAGUE RURAL PRISON COMMISSARY FRAUD ADDS ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  October 9, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Ann Imse News Staff Writer Inmates at a troubled private prison in eastern Colorado were rolling in candy bars until managers discovered their trick: The cons had altered records and added $6,000 to their commissary accounts. The prisoners were smart enough to spread the windfall among

Article: Archer moved to rural prison
The Scotsman;  August 10, 2001 ;     700+ words ...LORD ARCHER was transferred to a prison in rural Norfolk, less than an hour from his home at Grantcheste, yesterday, after spending three weeks in a maximum security jail. The disgraced peer, 61, who spent most of his time at Belmarsh locked in his cell, will enjoy a more relaxed regime at Wayland,

Article: Quack science.(Letter to the Editor)
Washington Monthly;  June 1, 2002 ;     465 words ...Congratulations on Chris Mooney's expose of the "alternative medicine" story, a set of events unprecedented in medicine, and the greatest challenge to science since 1910. For the first time in a century, political pressures and mystical beliefs reached a critical mass, driving unnecessary research

Article: Social science. (Letter From the Editors).
W;  November 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...November As any social observer can attest--even an amateur with, say, only a few months of reading Suzy under her belt--there is an endless supply of parvenus striving for entre into high society. It is, after all, human nature to yearn to join the group, to be on the inside. But society's

Article: Junk science.(Letter to the Editor)
Pollution Engineering;  September 1, 2003 ;     505 words ...Dear Roy, Your June issue includes a letter from Stephen Schulte who, in reference to the news item "EPA reports childhood asthma rates double" in your April issue, criticizes the EPA for junk science that results in the waste of precious resources to solve non-problems or nuisances. The EPA

Article: Weird science.( )(Letter to the editor)
Harper's Magazine;  February 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...In her November review, "Hysterical Scientism," Marilynne Robinson argues that "eugenics is science as surely as totemism is religion"; therefore Richard Dawkins should own up to the treachery of science. But Robinson is dismissive of the fact that scientists assume error as a function of their

Article: Piltdown and science.(Letter to the Editor)
Skeptical Inquirer;  May 1, 2005 ;     613 words ...Massimo Pigliucci is quite correct to insist that the Piltdown affair should be celebrated as a scientific victory ("Piltdown and How Science Really Works," January/February 2005). Nevertheless, he omits a crucial element that grants the story greater significance. The real hero of the Piltdown