We are all aware that marketing firms collect huge amounts of data to develop ad campaigns and to identify target audiences for marketing purposes. They use massive amounts of data in search of patterns and...
When Texas changed its science curriculum standards, the science and science education community bristled, fearing that the 4-million strong purchasing power of Texas schools would push textbooks publishers to weaken the standards. The language of...
Fox news climate change
    When the National Climate Assessment was released on Tuesday, Fox News Channel devoted a grand total of 24 minutes to covering it--by far the lowest of all of the major cable news channels, according to...
The shutdown continues to cost the American public much, it is also costing humans in general much in terms of compromised medical research. And now, it is dealing a chilling blow to climate change research...
Kent Stephenson (third from the right in the picture) was paralyzed in a motocross accident in 2009. He was told he would never walk again. Thanks to the procedure called epidural stimulation, he was able...
Quick, answer this: How does a city eliminate chronic homelessness? If you answered, "Provide homes for the homeless people," you're right! Crazy, isn't it, that the most obvious solution to the problem of chronic homelessness is...
Ken Ham
Attendance must be slipping at evangelical ringmaster Ken Ham’s Creation “Museum.” The famous young earth creationist is nothing if not media savvy. He has a penchant for generating controversy when he needs an injection of...
Anyone who thinks Ben Carson is a viable alternative to Donald Trump should consider how uninformed he is on science and history. Well, Buzzfeed recently found an example of how uninformed the good doctor is....
laziness
We’ve all heard that old saying, “the early bird gets the worm.” But is this still true with so many studies showing otherwise? In fact, science continues to prove that humans are more productive later...
In a ruling that is a victory for everyone who suffers from a genetic predisposition to disease, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled today that human genes cannot be patented. The case that...
This week in science, astrophysicists confirmed that ?a galaxy cluster 9.9 billion light years away. // // The study began in 2006. They had had a hard time confirming how far away it is, however, and...
A new series of bills passing in various states around the country are calling for "academic freedom," which sounds good and all. However, these bills are being used to teach that creationism and evolution are...
President Donald Trump is a not fan of science. He thinks climate change is a hoax made up by the Chinese. One of Trump's advisors said that Ivanka is working on that, so I guess...
The latest Christian group to try and discredit the theory of evolution--and failing miserably--is the Jehovah's Witnesses, who posted a video to the Jehovah’s Witnesses Broadcasting’s Watchtower Society website claiming that science in no way proves...
Foreign Policy
Thanks to climate change, 11 of the last 13 months have been the hottest ever recorded. But President-elect Donald Trump intends to end NASA’s climate research in order to combat what his team calls “politically...
EPA
Late last year, Donald Trump said that "crystal clear water" would be important to his administration. But, as the saying goes, actions speak louder than words. Trump’s actions consistently demonstrate that he doesn’t care about protecting America’s...
A jar of change knocked over and spilling coins.
According to a fascinating series of studies by the University of Minnesota and the University of Illinois, children asked to sort money drives young children to work, work, work! In several comparison studies, children asked...
The Creationists say that the Earth is only 6,000-years-old because the Bible tells them so. But, does it really say that? Dating the Earth isn't even in the Bible at all. So, where do they get...
Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency came under fire for making last-minute changes to its 2015 report on how fracking impacts water supplies. But the EPA reversed course Monday, removing language from the report...
Have you ever wondered what's the difference between mental health and mental illness? In this video Ken Ham explains to us how the bible can account for dinosaurs. You see, apparently all of these atheist, communist,...