I like the fact that McCain’s best example of Obama’s wasteful spending basically comes down to “Barack Obama tried to teach your children SCIENCE!”
As if scientists weren’t having enough problems due to federal budget freezes, now they’re facing flak from Republican presidential candidate John McCain because of a $3 million planetarium projector. Which was never funded.
McCain has repeatedly taken his [...]

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Barack Obama has established a small but well-regarded inner circle of science advisors that includes a vocal critic of creationism, a Nobel laureate who has championed open-access research, and another laureate who used his prize money to defend academic freedom against the war on terror. Though their influence on the policies of a prospective Obama [...]

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Article via BBC News by By Brendan O’Neill
In the 21st Century, the term “flat-earther” is used to describe someone who is spectacularly - and seemingly wilfully - ignorant. But there is a group of people who claim they believe the planet really is flat. Are they really out there or is it all an [...]

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At 5:00 PM (EST) tonight, voting will close in the fifth annual Weblog Awards, “the world’s largest blog competition.” In the competition, participants are allowed to “vote once every 24 hours in each poll.”Currently leading the field in the “Best Science Blog” category is a website whose work has gone a long way in furthering [...]

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