Topic: science

Lewis ThomasThe cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers....

PZ Myers is again the guest on this week's Point of Inquiry podcast, and this time he falls into a lot of verbal dancing on whether science and god-belief are compatible. On one hand, Myers wants to promote science, especially biology and evolution, and this involves both showing and telling what's happening in the world of science. On the other hand, he wants to discredit faith-based thinking...

Yellow Science - WSJ.com Scientists, like journalists, are called upon to plumb the depths of the unknown and to fairly and objectively report their findings to their own professional community as well as the general public. Scientists, like the journalists of yesteryear, have specific methods for ensuring that the public trust placed in them is not abused. The most fundamental of these methods is...

This Scientific American interview confirms what I have known for decades; software is no science.