Article: Studies from V. Chiesa and co-researchers yield new data on research and development.(Report)

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: 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

Article: Baffled by science.(Letter)
The Birmingham Post (England);  February 19, 2001 ;     377 words ...Byline: DENNIS N HURLEY Sir, - If your correspondent J Horton (Post, Feb 12) intended to baffle us with science he certainly succeeded. Did he ever crouch down on the side of a railway embankment and watch what happened to the rails and sleepers when a steam loco went by at 60mph? In those days the

Article: Not rocket science.(Letter)(Letter to the editor)
Arkansas Business;  June 22, 2009 ;     347 words ...I could not agree more with Jeff Hankins' Publisher's Note (June 15) about how the need for "lottery experience" in the new director's position was a bit overblown. We're not trying to put a man on the moon. We're just trying to convince fools to part with their money--something many people readily