Remember when UNICEF was about feeding hungry kids? Now it’s about feeding kids BS. Continue reading
Category Archives: Education
Climate propaganda works: UNICEF survey says 75% of UK schoolchildren ‘deeply concerned’ about global warming
Posted in Climate Change, Education
NOAA urges teachers to terrorize kids on climate: ‘Make an extinction polyhedron’ because climate changes causes ‘mass extinction events’
“The cause of most mass extinction events involved some type of climate change.” Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Education
Chelsea Clinton entering global warming wars?
Her opening salvo supports federal science standards propaganda for teaching students about climate change. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Education
UK Enviro: Removing climate change from curriculum denies children the right to participate in the debate about their own future
Okay… as along as they get concurrent lessons in junk science and the history of totalitarianism. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Education
UK: Climate debate cut from national curriculum for children up to 14
“New draft guidelines for key stages 1 to 3 criticised by scientists for ‘abdicating duty to future generations’.” Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Education
Obamacore: Government schools
Many Americans probably heard about the Obama Administrations’ federal overhaul of public education for the first time when the Washington Post recently began its series. Continue reading
Posted in Education
Another college environmental studies program opens
A new environmental studies center named after Robert Redford has opened at Pitzer College in Los Angeles. Continue reading
Posted in Education, Environmentalism
Developing world gains open access to science research, but hurdles remain
While the free flow of scientific information is now acknowledged as important, the battle for unrestricted access is far from over Continue reading
Posted in Education, Peer review
ORI: Former Harvard postdoc guilty of misconduct
Shane Mayack, a former postdoctoral researcher at the Joslin Diabetes Center, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts engaged in research misconduct by duplicating figures in a pair of publications and poaching figures from other sources according to the US Office of Research Integrity (ORI), which investigates fraud in federally funded research. Continue reading
Ah yes, those wonderful poorly ventilated [read: energy efficient] buildings
New device monitors schoolroom air for carbon dioxide levels that may make kids drowsy Continue reading
Posted in Education, Energy efficiency, Health
Academia Nuts: The Left’s Bias Against Conservatives Is Real
A new study finds leftist bias all too real in academic hiring. Campus radicals not only run colleges but admit they discriminate against conservatives. So much for “tolerance.” Why should voters foot the bill for this? Continue reading
Posted in Education
Propaganda alert! Maryland gets grant to help teach climate change
Teachers in Maryland are about to get new help and encouragement to talk about the touchy topic of global warming in their classrooms. The National Science Foundation announced Wednesday that it is awarding $5.8 million for improving climate-change education in Maryland and Delaware through a partnership including universities and school systems from both states. Continue reading
Political bias in the academy
It has long been known that universities are overwhelmingly staffed by people of a left-wing persuasion, this having been shown by many surveys. Continue reading
Posted in Education
Survey shocker: Liberal profs admit they’d discriminate against conservatives in hiring, advancement
‘Impossible lack of diversity’ reflects ideological intimidation on campus Continue reading
Posted in Education
Maurizio Morabito: Extending Ben Goldacre’s Appeal To Authority to real life
Bishop Hill has a post quoting Ben Goldacre’s “appeal to authority”:
“you have only two choices: you can either learn to interpret data yourself and come to your own informed conclusions; or you decide who to trust”
That statement misses a crucial point. Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Education, IPCC
Tagged appeal to authority, medical research, PlayStation® climatology, research
Whither Science Publishing?
As we stand on the brink of a new scientific age, how researchers should best communicate their findings and innovations is hotly debated in the publishing trenches. Continue reading
Posted in Education, Media, Peer review
UK government will enforce open access to development research
All studies funded by Department for International Development after 1 November will be freely available for anyone to read Continue reading
Opinion: Scientists’ Intuitive Failures
“Much of what researchers believe about the public and effective communication is wrong.“
Actually I suspect public trust in science has been largely eroded and this is so because media sensationalize (Doom! -scientists), institutions publicize (science by press release) and activists manipulate (alar, biotech, chemical du jour, global warming… ). The public are tired of the hysterics and rightly so Continue reading
Ian Musgrave: Missing the Point About Evidence Based Medicine (teaching and doing)
Memo to CAM enthusiasts, try not to shoot yourself in the foot publicly next time. Continue reading
Aus: Science subject comes under fire
Oh no! It actually contains science rather than green dogma! What can we do? Who can we telephone?
Actually we might applaude the practicality and hope that green stupidity finally dies its long overdue death. There’s no place in education for misanthropy. Continue reading
