Featherlou's Junk Science--as deadly as she says?
by Published on 01 Aug 2009 12:21 AM
Actually, the love affair with junk science, and almost gleeful use of agenda-driven pseudoscience is probably even worse than she let on. I think even more nefarious than that is the constant derisive attitude certain leaders and politicians take towards real science. For example, the ongoing controversy around evolution and the ever-growing controversy around global warming. How are people supposed to know what real science even looks like when their parents, educators, and community leaders sneer that "evolution is just a theory" revealing that they know nothing of evolution, theories, or science?
Anyway, I was not aware of the controversy that featherlou described in her article. I found it fascinating, though not at all surprising. I hope that she'll write more of these sorts of exposes in the future.