Happy Darwin Day! Is that even an appropriate thing to wish somebody? Especially so close to Valentine’s day? Darwin Day, according to the International Darwin Day Foundation, is “a global celebration of science and reason held on or around Feb.…
Is there a left-wing “War on Science”? Influential American sceptic Michael Shermer devotes his latest column in Scientific American to arguing exactly this. Bloggers have already sent some considerable heat in Shermer’s direction, particularly because he implies that anti-science attitudes…