Article: Studies from Y.C. Guan and co-researchers update current data on botany.

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

Article: Stick to science.(Letter to the Editor)
New Scientist;  March 19, 2005 ;     431 words ...From Ean MacKellar I read your editorial on divided loyalties with interest (26 February, p 3). My perspective is somewhat different to yours. Scientists have spent years trying to ensure that they are accepted by society as a whole and, as part of this process, are generally prepared to give

Article: Silly old science: Letter
The Independent - London;  October 14, 1996 ;     259 words ...Sir: So "the fault lies with science, not the girls and their mothers", does it (Leader, 9 October)? Just as the fault lay with the greylag goose killed, allegedly by Roy Hattersley's dog, in St James's Park - it was supposed to fly away. Do the logicians have a term for this inverted form of