Articles Science Journalism and Change Science journalists should also cover the mistakes of science. Cargo Cult Skepticism How mainstream skepticism is really just a cheap imitation. Appeal To Ockham How Fake Skeptics get Ockham’s Razor wrong. Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism? […]
Continue reading »Month: December 2019
Journalists Must Also Cover The Mistakes of Science
Science Journalists Are Only Telling the Stories Which Make Science Look Good, But Science that Guides Public Policy Must Also Be Informed By the Lessons of Science’s Mistakes The unspoken truth of modern science is that many of the ideas […]
Continue reading »Cargo Cult Skepticism
Mainstream skepticism is for the most part what could be called cargo cult skepticism. The term comes from the practice of ritualistic acts by indigenous peoples. These acts involved the mimicking of the behaviors of colonizers in the hope that […]
Continue reading »Appeal To Ockham
Fake skepticism is a scourge. Yet I enjoy discussions with fake skeptics. Why? The same reason an entomologist studies bugs. To others, bugs are excruciatingly stupid, repulsive and boring but for whatever reason, the entomologist has developed a fascination with […]
Continue reading »Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism?
How often have you heard some rabidly smug pro-vaccination fanatic proclaim that “vaccines don’t cause autism”? There are several ways that this statement is wrong. It’s Unscientific No competent conscientious scientists would ever make the claim that “vaccines don’t cause […]
Continue reading »