More critical and unbiased thinking please
Surendra Gadekar has an article in the latest Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in which he asserts that the Indo-U.S. nuclear deal won’t save India from energy problems. Even assuming that this fact holds, Dr. Gadekar seems to think that it logically implies that India should not pursue nuclear power [...]
In the 1950s, Dwight Eisenhower brought scientists into the White House with the creation of the President’s Science Advisory Committee (PSAC). His aim was to dissolve barriers between the President and objective scientific advice so that responsible scientists could report directly to the President. In the succeeding years, these scientists provided invaluable advice to the [...]
In the 1950s, after much wrangling on issues related to national defense and other expedient matters, President Eisenhower set up the President’s Science Advisory Committee (PSAC), a group of distinguished scientists that was to provide non-partisan scientific advice to presidents. The president wanted a body of advisors in the White House who were answerable to [...]
In the 1930s, the United States Food and Drug Administration was a mere shadow of its current incarnation, skimpy and ineffectual, with a few dozen agents scuttling around mainly trying to curb excessive profit-making within their limited jurisdiction. There were no laws that needed drug manufacturers to list all ingredients, no laws that called for [...]
These days I usually steer clear of creationists. The reason is that I know that I am not going to change any “pure” creationist’s mind in a couple of hours. Creationists almost by definition have closed minds. They start with a religious premise that is assumed to be true and then try to weave evidence [...]